Kurt Hirsch
Kurt August Hirsch was a German mathematician who moved to England to escape the Nazi persecution of Jews. His research was in group theory. He also worked to reform mathematics education and became a county chess champion. The Hirsch length and Hirsch–Plotkin radical are named after him.
He taught at the University of Leicester from 1938, moved to King's College, Newcastle in 1948, and then moved again to Queen Mary College in London in 1951, where he stayed for the remainder of his career and worked with K. W. Gruenberg.
Hirsch's doctoral students include Ismail Mohamed and Ascher Wagner.Publications
He translated several books from Russian, including:
