Accomplishments
Hohlfeld became a contributing editor to Americana Germanica in 1898. He then became chairman of the Central division of the Modern Language Association of America in 1904. He was also a member of the Modern Language Association of England, the Goethe-Gesellschaft (Goethe Society) in Weimar, the Deutsche Shakespeare-Gesellschaft (German Shakespeare Society), the Deutsche Bibliographische Gesellschaft (German Bibliography Society), the Gesellschaft für Theatergeschichte (Society for the History of Theater) of Berlin, and the Sächsicher Neuphilogen-Verband (Saxonian New Philology Union). His life’s work as a scholar of the German language was recognized by the City of Frankfurt Germany with the Goetheplakette prize in 1951.
A residence house within Ogg Hall dormitory, which opened in 2007 at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, carries his name.
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