August Hirsch

August Hirsch (4 October 1817, Danzig – 28 January 1894, Berlin) was a German physician and medical historian.

August Hirsch

Biography

He practiced in Danzig after studying at Berlin and Leipzig. In recognition of his studies on malarial fever and his work, Handbuch der historisch-geographischen Pathologie, he was in 1863 made professor at Berlin. In 1873, he was a member of the German Cholera Commission, studied the conditions of Posen and West Prussia, and published a report (1874). He studied the plague in Astrakhan in 1879 and 1880, and in the latter year wrote a report to his Government.

Literary works

Die grossen Volkskrankheiten des Mittelalters, a revision of Hecker's collected writings, 1865
Jahresbericht über die Fortschritte und Leistungen der Medizin, with Rudolf Virchow, 1866 et seq.
Die Meningitis Cerebro-spinalis Epidemica, 1866
Geschichte der Augenheilkunde, 1877
Handbuch der historisch-geographischen Pathologie, 3 Vols., 1881-1886[1]
- Handbook of Geographical and Historical Pathology, 3 Vols., 1883–1886, trans. by Charles Creighton[1]
Biographisches Lexikon der hervorragenden Ärzte aller Zeit, editor, 6 Vols., 1884-1888
Geschichte der medizinischen Wissenschaften in Deutschland, 1893

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References

"Review of Handbuch der historisch-geographischen Pathologie von Dr. August Hirsch and Handbook of Geographical and Historical Pathology by Dr. August Hirsch, trans. by Charles Creighton". The Quarterly Review. 164: 193–217. January 1887.

Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "Hirsch, August" . New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.

External links

Julius Pagel (1905), "Hirsch, August", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB) (in German), 50, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 361–363

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[Handbook1886-1] "Review of Handbuch der historisch-geographischen Pathologie von Dr. August Hirsch and Handbook of Geographical and Historical Pathology by Dr. August Hirsch, trans. by Charles Creighton". The Quarterly Review. 164: 193–217. January 1887.