August Hirsch

August Hirsch ( born Aron Simon Hart, born October 4, 1817 in Danzig, † January 28, 1894 in Berlin) was a German physician and medical historian.

Life

August Hirsch was the son of a merchant and began with 15 years of a business apprenticeship in Berlin. Since he had no inclination to, he again visited the school in Elbing, where he made high school. From 1839 he studied medicine at the Universities of Leipzig and Berlin, where he received his doctorate in 1843. After that, he was at first a doctor in Elblag and then in Gdansk. After smashing his plans working as a doctor in Indonesia he turned to scientific activity to and published in Virchow's Archives on tropical and infectious diseases, and finally published in 1859 his extensive Handbook of geographical and historical pathology, which established his reputation, especially for his careful literature studies. In 1862 he converted to Christianity in Königsberg; one of the two Taufzeugen was the philologist Ludwig Friedlander.

In 1863 he became professor of pathology, history and literature of medicine in Berlin. In 1864 he habilitated there on the anatomy of the school of Hippocrates. Commissioned by the Prussian government in 1865, he examined a partially broken in the province of West Prussia epidemic of meningitis and wrote a monograph. With Max von Pettenkofer he founded in 1873 the German Cholera Commission and was the German representative at the International Conference cholera in 1874. To investigate the cholera, he traveled in order of the State of West Prussia and Posen. In 1879 he traveled on behalf of the German Government to Astrakhan to investigate the outbreak of the plague, which he published in 1880 a monograph. In 1872, he founded the German Society for Public Health Care in Berlin. He was its president until 1885 and then Honorary Member. 1892 Hirsch was elected a member of the Leopoldina.

Hirsch was married to Pauline Friedlander († 1863). The mathematician Kurt Hirsch was his grandson.

Writings (selection )

  • The cerebro- spinal meningitis epidemic from historical- geographical and pathological- therapeutic points of view. Hirschwald, Berlin, 1865. ( Digitized in the Internet Archive )
  • Publication and editing of Justus Hecker: The most common diseases of the Middle Ages. Historical- pathological investigations. Publisher Theodor Christian Friedrich Enslin, Berlin, 1865. ( Digitized in the Internet Archive )
  • On the prevention and control of common diseases: more specially with reference to the cholera. Lüderitz, Berlin 1875.
  • History of ophthalmology. Engelmann, Leipzig 1877. ( Digitized in the Internet Archive )
  • Communications on the plague epidemic in winter 1878-1879 in the Russian province of Astrakhan. Heymann, Berlin 1880. M. With Sommerbrodt. ( Digitized in the Internet Archive )
  • Handbook of geographical and historical pathology, 3 volumes, Enke, Stuttgart from 1881 to 1886. Volume 1: The general acute infectious diseases ( digitized in the Internet Archive )
  • Volume 2: Chronic Infections and Intoxications diseases, parasitic diseases, infectious diseases and chronic wounds nutritional abnormalities ( digitized in the Internet Archive )
  • Volume 3: The Organ Diseases ( digitized in the Internet Archive )
  • Volume 1: Aaskow to Chavasse. In 1884. ( Digitized in the Internet Archive )
  • Volume 2: Chavet to Gwinne. In 1885. ( Digitized in the Internet Archive )
  • Volume 3: Haab to Lindsley. In 1886. ( Digitized in the Internet Archive )
  • Volume 4: Lindsley to Revillon. In 1886.
  • Volume 5: Révolat to Trefurt. , 1887. ( Digitized in the Internet Archive )
  • Volume 6: Driver to Zypen. , 1888.
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