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Holland, Philemon (1552–1637)

English translator. Working both as a doctor and a school teacher, he made his reputation with his translations from classical writers, including Pliny, Suetonius, Plutarch, and Xenophon. His translations are characterized by immense learning combined with a fine feeling for the emotional tone of the original.

Holland was born in Chelmsford, Essex, the son of a Protestant clergyman who fled to Europe during Mary's reign. Holland took his MA at Cambridge in 1574 and subsequently studied medicine. He then settled in Coventry where he spent the rest of his life teaching, practising medicine, and translating the classics. These included works by Livy (1600), Pliny's Natural History (1601), Plutarch's Moralia (1603), works by Suetonius (1606), Ammianus Marcellinus (1609), and Xenophon's Cyropaedia (1632). In addition he translated Camden's Britannia into English in 1610. A few medical translations were issued posthumously.


From the Hutchinson Encyclopedia of World History. © Research Machines plc [2006] All Rights Reserved, Helicon Publishing is a division of Research Machines.
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3 July 1956
In England, Jawaharlal Nehru of India and Sir Sidney Holland of New Zealand are made Freemen of the City of London.
9 October 1779
The British ship the Lutine sink offs off the coast of Holland. The ship’s bell is salvaged from the wreck and is later presented to shipping insurers Lloyds of London. The Lutine Bell has been rung ever since to mark a maritime disaster.
 

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