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Holst was born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, the elder of the two children of Adolph von Holst, a professional musician, and his wife, Clara Cox, née Lediard. She was of mostly British descent, [n 1] daughter of a respected Cirencester solicitor; [2] the Holst side of the family was of mixed Swedish, Latvian and German ancestry, with at least one professional musician in each of the ...
Henning Holst (1891–1975), Danish field hockey player; Imogen Holst (1907–1984), British conductor, composer and writer, daughter of Gustav Holst; Johan Jørgen Holst (1937–1994), Norwegian politician; Johan Throne Holst (1868–1946), Norwegian industrialist and politician; Kai Holst (1913–1945), Norwegian resistance fighter and member ...
Peter Fredrik Holst (23 December 1861 – 5 January 1935) was a Norwegian physician, a professor of internal medicine and specialist in bacteriology and cardiology. He is probably best remembered for his contributions to a widely used textbook in internal medicine.
Amalia Holst (née Amalia von Justi; 10 February 1758 – 6 January 1829) was a German writer, intellectual, and early feminist. Her work examined traditional pedagogy and challenged Enlightenment writers such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau .
Their son Hermann V. von Holst, the future architect, was born in Freiburg im Breisgau in 1874. A call to a professorship of history in the newly reorganized University of Strasbourg brought him back to Germany in 1872. [3] In 1874, he was given the chair of modern history at University of Freiburg in the Grand Duchy of Baden where he stayed ...
Emil Gotschlich was born in Bangkok, Thailand, on January 17, 1935, to German parents, Emil Clemens Gotschlich, a physician in private practice in Thailand and his wife Magdalene, née Holst, who were both physicians. [3]
Imogen Clare Holst CBE (née von Holst; [1] 12 April 1907 – 9 March 1984) was a British composer, arranger, conductor, teacher, musicologist, and festival administrator. . The only child of the composer Gustav Holst, she is particularly known for her educational work at Dartington Hall in the 1940s, and for her 20 years as joint artistic director of the Aldeburgh Festiv
Hermann Valentin von Holst (1874–1955) was an American architect practicing in Chicago, Illinois, and Boca Raton, Florida, from the 1890s to the 1940s. He is best remembered for agreeing to take on the responsibility of heading up Frank Lloyd Wright 's architectural practice when Wright went off to Europe with Mamah Cheney in 1909.