Adolf Holtzmann

Adolf Holtzmann (2 May 1810 in Karlsruhe – 3 July 1870 in Heidelberg) was a German professor and philologist. His name is associated with a Proto-Germanic sound law known as Holtzmann's law.

He studied theology at the University of Halle and the Friedrich Wilhelm University of Berlin, where he was a student of Friedrich Schleiermacher. He later studied philology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, where his influences included Johann Andreas Schmeller. Holtzmann also attended classes at the University of Paris given by Eugène Burnouf, and beginning in 1837, spent a number of years working as a tutor to members of Baden royalty. From 1852, he was a professor of German literature and Sanskrit at Heidelberg University, and a notable philologist of his day.