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