August Hirsch
August Hirsch was a German physician and medical historian.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. He studied the plague in Astrakhan in 1879 and 1880, and in the latter year wrote a report to his Government.- 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.
- , 1866
- Geschichte der Augenheilkunde, 1877
- Handbuch der historisch-geographischen Pathologie, 3 Vols., 1881-1886
- *, 3 Vols., 1883–1886, trans. by Charles Creighton
- , editor, 6 Vols., 1884-1888
- , 1893
