August Hirsch (4 October 1817, Danzig – 28 January 1894, Berlin) 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 (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.

• , 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

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