Holland, Thomas, a celebrated English divine, born at Ludlow, in Shropshire, in 1539, was educated at Exeter College, Oxford. His broad and thorough schol- arshiil secured him the regius professorship at Oxford, and in this station "he distinguished himself so much by every kind of desirable attainment, divine or human, that he was esteemed and admired not only in our sem- inaries of learning at homo, but also in the imiversities aljroad" (3Iiddleton, E>: Biog. ii, 373 sq. ; compare also Jocher. Gdehrt. Lex. ii, 1G74). He died March 17, 1G12. Holland was a zealous Protestant, and labored earnestly to drive from Oxford all Papists and their sympathizers, of whom it had not a few at this early date of Protes- tantism in England. It is to be regretted that most of the worksite left, and these were few indeed, were never printed. Allibone mentions Oratio Oxon. (Oxford, 1599, 4to) and Sermons (ibid. IGOl, 4to).
Hollaz, David, a German Lutheran divine, was born at Wulkow, near Stargard, in 1648. He studied at AVittenberg, and became successively pastor of Plit- zerkin, near Stargard, in 1670, co-rector of Stargard in 1680, rector and preacher of Colberg, and, finally, pro- vost and pastor of Jakobshagen. He died in 1713. Aside from minor productions on different subjects, as sermons, etc., he vn:ote a work on dogmatics which was long in great favor. It is entitled Examen theologinnn acroamtificum univermin theologiam theiico-polemiram complectens (1707, 4to ; reprinted in 1717, 1722, 1725, 1735, and 1741 ; and, with additions and corrections, b}^ E. Teller in 1750 and 1763). The popularity enjoyed t by this work was not so much due to its scientific orig-
inality, for it was mainly based on the works of Ger- hard, Calov, Scherzer, etc., as to its convenient arrange- ment, the clearness and precision of its definitions, and the careful and thorough classification of its contents, i
Another, and perhaps still more powerful cause of its success is to be found in its liberal spirit, coupled with un- impeachable orthodoxy. Hollaz occupies the first place among the Lutheran theologians of the close of the 17th and the beginning of the 18th century. He sought to find a medium between the orthodox scholastic divin- ity and the wants of practical religion, and endeavored to reconcile ecclesiastical orthodoxy with freedom of thought. See Ernesti, Xeiie Theol. v, 185; Walch, Bihl. Theol. i, 62 ; Ersch und Gruber, .1 llrj. EncyUoimdie ; Her- zog, Real-Encyklop.\\, 240; llagenbach, //is/, of Dodr. ii, 263, 264, 339; Gass, Gcschiclile d. Doijmnt. ii,"495 sq.; Kiu-tz, Chiinh. Iliist. ii, 245; Schriickh," Kircheni/esch. s. d. Ref. viii, 16 sq. ; Dorner, Gesch. d. Doymat. p. 430 sq.
Hollebeck, Ewalo, a Dutch theologian, born at Hamstede in 1719, was educated at the University of Leydcn. In 1762 he was called to his alma mater as professor of theology. He is especially distinguislied in the Church of Holland by his revolutionary efforts in the homiletical field of theology. He was "the first to condemn the old method of making a sermon an exeget- ical dissertation, and to introduce the luiglish method of preaching to the edif cation of the people. He set forth his views in Be opfimo conciomim (jenere (Lcyden, 1768; much enlarged, 1770, 8vo). At first he encoun- tered great opposition ; but, as he bore himself calmly in the contest, he soon got the better of his opponents, and, as a mark of his popularity at the university, he was elected rector in 1764. He died Oct. 24, 1796.— Schriickh, Kirchengesch. s. d. Reform, viii, 653 sq. ; Walch, Xeuesf. Religionsgesch.il, AW sq.; Ernesti, U. Theolog. Bihlioth.i, 230 sq. ; Adelung's Jocher, Gelehrt. Lex. ii, 2098 ; Biog. Unii: XX, 480.
Holleshow, Jon ANN vox, a Benedictine monk, born at Holleshow, in Bohemia, in 1366, was educated at Paris. He was one of the most violent o]iponents of Huss, and contributed more than any other person to his execution. This explains why the Hussites after- wards (1420) destroyed the monastery to which Holles- how belonged. He died in 1436. A list of his works is given in Adeliuig's Jocher, Gelehrt. Lex. ii, 2098. (J. H.W.)
Holley, Horace, LL.D., a L'nitarian minister, was born in Salisbury, Conn., Feb. 13, 1781; graduated at Yale College in 1803 ; in 1805 was minister of (ireeulield HiU, Fairfield, and in 1809 minister of Hollis Street, Boston. In 1818 he became the president of Transyl- vania University, Lexington, Ky., which office he re- tained until 1827. He died on a voyage to New York Julj' 31, 1827. He had great reputation as a pulpit orator, and published se\eral occasional sermons and addresses. See Memoir of Dr. Jhdleg, by his AA'idow ; North A merican Review, xxvii, 403 ; Allibone, Diciion- arg of Authors, i, 8GG.
Holliday, Charles, a Methodist Episcopal minister, born in Baltimore Nov. 23, 1771, was licensed to preach in 1797, and entered the itinerancy in 1809. He was made presiding elder on Salt Kiver District in 1813; lo- cated in 181G ; was again presiding elder on Cumberland District, Tennessee Conference, 1817-21 ; on Green River District, Kentucky Conference, 1821-25; and on Wabash District, lUinois Conference, 182.5-28. At the General Conference of 1828 he was appointed Book Agent at Cin- cinnati, where he remained eight years. After this lie Avas for several years presiding elder in the Illinois Con- ference. He was superannuated in 184G, and died :\Iarch 8, 1850. Jlr, Holliday was a " clear, sound, and l^ractical preacher," a deeply pious Christian, and amia- ble and beloved in all the relations of life. — Minutes of Conferences, iv, 528 ; Redford, History of Methodism in Ke^ituchf, ii, 95 sq. ((J. L. T.)