Hollingshead, Williajf, D.D., a Congregational minister, born at Philadelphia Oct. 8, 1748. was educated at the L'niversity of Pennsylvania in 1770, and entered the ministry in 1772. His first pastoral charge was at Fairfield, N. J. In 1783 he accepted a call from a church
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in Charleston, S. C. In 1793 Princeton College conferred on him the degree of D.D. He died Jan. 26, 1817. He published several sermons (1789, 1794, 1805). — Sprague, Annals of Amer. Pulpit, ii, 58.
Hollis, Thomas, Sr., one of the early benefactors of Harvard College, was born in London in 1059. His father, though a Baptist, was a member of the Indepen- dent Churcli at Pinner's Hall, and he followed in the same relation. Having accumidated a fortune in trade, he gave large sums to charity and to advance the Bap- tist and Independent Churches. Still more substantial marks of his liberality were conferred on Harvard Col- lege, Mass., in which he founded a professorship of math- ematics and one of theology, and endowed scholarships for poor students, enriched the library and the cabinets, etc. He died in London in 1731. See Crosby, Hist, of the Baptists, iv, 229 ; Bogue and Bennett, History of the Dissenters, ii, 414 ; Christian Examiner, vii, G4 ; Skeats, Free Churches of England, p. 323.
Hollis, Thomas, Jr., nephew of the preceding, was born in London in 1720, and devoted himself to literature and to the propagation of the principles of civil and re- ligious liberty. He travelled over the Continent from 1748 to 1750, and then settled down on his estate at Corsecombe, Dorset. It is said that half of his large for- tune was given away for benevolent purposes. Among his benefactions was a donation of books to the library of Harvard College to the value of £1400 sterling. He died at Corsecombe in 1 774. His Memoirs were published in 1780, in two splendid quartos, M-ith engravings. See Gentl Mag. vol. Ixxiv; Allibone, Diet. of'A uthors, i, 866.
Hollister, Theorem O., a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born in 1822 at Sharon, Conn. He was converted in early life, preached under the presiding elder in the state of New York, removed to Wisconsin, and joined the Wisconsin Conference in 1853. His ap- pointments were : Summit, Fort Atkinson, Lake JMills, (Jreenbujh, S'.ieboygan Falls, Fond du Lac Station, Fond du Lac District, Oconomowoc, Waukesha, and Hart Prai- rie. " He was truly a laborer in God"s harvest, zealously affected always in every good thing, serving the Lorl most emphatically with all his heart, and soul, and mind, and strength." He died at Salem, Wisconsin, March 13, 1869. Hollister was a self-educated man, but good native talent, a logical mind, and vivid imagination atoned for his earlier deficiency, and he ranked among the first in his Conference. See Min. A nn. Conf. 1869, p. 225.
Hollman, Sa:muel Christian, a distinguished Ger- man theologian, born at Stettin Dec. 3, 1696, was edu- cated at the University of Wittenberg. After lecturing a short time at the universities of Greifswald and Jena, he returned in 1723 to Wittenberg, and was made ad- junct professor of philosophy in 1724. Two years later he was promoted to an extraordinary professorship, and in 1734 was called as a regular professor to the Univer- sity of Gottingen, then opening. He died in 1787. Holl- man devoted his time mainly to philosophical studies. He was at first an opponent of Wolf's philosophy, later an admirer of it, and finally became an Eclectic. He wrote text-books in metaphysics, which were well re- ceived, and used so long as eclecticism was in vogue in Germany. He was also active in awakening an inter- est in his contemporaries for the study of the natural sciences. His most important Avorks are : De stnpendo nature myaterio anima sibi ipsi ignota (Greifs. and Wit- tenb. n2-i-2A, 4to) : — Commentako philos. de harmnnia inter animam et corpus prcestahilita (Wittenb. 1724, 4to) : — Apologia Prcelecfionum in N. T. Grmc. habitarum (ibid. 1727, 4to) : — Comni. phil. de miraculis et genuinis enrun- dem critei-iis, etc. (Frankf. and Lpz. 1727, 4to) : — Instit. philoss. (Wittenberg, 1727, 2 vols. 8vo) : — Ueherzeu gender Vortrag v. Gott u. Schrift (ibid. 1733, 8vo. and often) :— Von d. menschl. Erkenntniss u. d. Quell, der Weltu-eisheit (ibid. 1737, 8vo) : — Tnstit.pneumatologice et theologirp nut- uralis (Gottingen, 1740, 8vo), etc. A list of his works is
given in Jocher, Gelehrt. Lex. Adelung's Add. ii, 2099 sq. See Krug, Philos. Lex. ii, 451 sq.
Holm, Peter, Jr., a Danish divine, born at Mourn, Norway, June 6, 1706, was educated at the university at Copenhagen, and aftenvards lectured at his alma mater. In 1738 he was appointed professor of theology and phi- losophy, when, in addition to the duties of his chair, he instructed in Greek and Hebrew, and assisted in the revi- sion of the Danish version of the Bible. In 1746 he was promoted to a regular professorship of theologj'. He died June 9, 1777. His Vt-ritings, which, on account of his excessive labor in the revision of the Bible, were few in number, are mainly in the form of dissertations. A list of them may be found in Adelung's Addenda ii. to Jocher's Gelehrt. Lex. p. 2102. (J, H.'w.)
HoIhi-Tree (-TrplvoQ, ilex') occurs only in the apoc- ryphal story of Susanna (ver. 58). The passage contains a characteristic play on the names of the two trees men- tioned by the elders in their evidence. That on the mastich (ffxlvov . . . dyyt\og T;^i(Tfi m) will be noticed under that head. See IMastick. That on the holm- tree {Kpli'ov) is : " The angel of God Avaiteth with the sword to cut thee in two" (iva irpiaai at). For the his- torical significance of these puns, see Susanna. The Tzph'OQ of Theophrastus {Hist. Plant, iii, 7, § 3, and 16, § 1, and elsewhere) and Dioscorides (i, 144) denotes, there can be no doubt, the Ojtercus coccifera, or the Q. pstudo- coccifera, which is perhaps not specifically distinct from the first-mentioned oak. The ilex of the Roman writers was applied both to the holm-oak {Querciis ilex), and to the Q. coccifei-a, or Icermes oak. See Pliny {N. H. xvi, 6). For the oaks of Palestine, see a paper by Dr. Hooker in the Transactions of the Linneean Society, vol. xxiii, pt. ii, p. 381-387.— Smith, s. v. See Oak.