Alexander Rudolf Hohlfeld
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Alexander Rudolf Hohlfeld | |
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| Born | December 29, 1865 Dresden, Kingdom of Saxony |
| Died | May 18, 1956 (aged 90) Madison, Wisconsin, U.S. |
| Education | Vanderbilt University |
| Occupation | Academic |
| Spouse |
Helen Voss (m. 1890) |
Alexander Rudolf Hohlfeld (December 29, 1865 – May 18, 1956) was a professor of German at the University of Wisconsin from 1901 until 1936.
Hohlfeld was born in Dresden, Kingdom of Saxony, on December 29, 1865, to Karl Gottlieb Hohlfeld and Helene (maiden name Libbert) Hohlfeld.[1] He attended high school at the Annen Realschule in Dresden, Germany. Thereafter he studied modern languages from 1884 until 1888, receiving a doctorate at the University of Leipzig in 1888. He studied in Paris in 1889 and thereafter he was an instructor in French at Vanderbilt University from 1889-90. In 1890 he married Helen Voss from Elgin, Illinois. Hohlfeld was an adjunct professor of Romance languages at Vanderbilt from 1890-2, then professor of Germanic languages from 1892–1901, becoming dean of that department at Vanderbilt in 1900-1.[2] In 1904, Hohlfeld was appointed chairman of the University of Wisconsin German department, holding this position until his retirement in 1936. Helmut Rehder, whose doctorate was from the University of Heidelberg, Germany, was his successor as department chairman.[3]
