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Holub (feminine Holubová) is a Czech, Slovak, Ukrainian, and Belarusian surname. It means ''pigeon'' or ''dove''. It is a cognate of Gołąb and Golub. It may refer to: * Beata Holub, Polish high jumper * Emil Holub, Czech doctor, explorer, cartographer, and ethnographer in Africa * E. J. Holub, AFL and NFL player * Eva Holubová, a Czech actress * Jan Holub (other), multiple people * Josef Ludwig Holub, botanist * Małgorzata Hołub-Kowalik (born 1992), Polish sprinter * Miloslava Holubová, Czech tennis player * Miroslav Holub, Czech poet and immunologist * Petra Holubová, Czech tennis player * Radim Holub, Czech footballer * Renate Holub, political philosopher and social theorist * Robert C. Holub, 28th chancellor of the University of Massachusetts Amherst * Vicki Hollub Vicki Hollub (born 1960) is an American businesswoman and mineral engineer. She has been the president and CEO of Occidental Petroleum since April 2016, when she became the first woman h ...
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Emil Holub
Emil Holub (7 October 1847 – 21 February 1902) was a Czech physician, explorer, cartographer, and ethnographer in Africa. Early life Holub was born in Holice in eastern Bohemia (then within the Austrian Empire, now the Czech Republic), to the family of a municipal doctor. After studying at a German-language grammar school in Žatec (Saaz), he was admitted at Prague University where he obtained a degree as a doctor of medicine (1872). Expeditions in Africa Inspired to visit Africa by the diaries of David Livingstone, Holub travelled to Cape Town, South Africa, shortly after graduation and eventually settled in Dutoitspan near Kimberley to practise medicine. After eight months, Holub set out in a convoy of local hunters on a two-month experimental expedition, or "scientific safari", where he began to assemble a large natural history collection. In 1873, Holub set out on his second scientific safari, devoting his attention to the collection of ethnographic material. On his ...
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