Siegfried Hirsch

Siegfried Hirsch ( born November 5, 1816 in Berlin, † September 11, 1860 in Paris) was a German historian of Jewish origin.

Life

Hirsch, cousin of Theodore Hirsch, 1833-36 devoted himself in Berlin and Königsberg, inspired by Leopold von Ranke, the study of history and expressed his outstanding talent by two in Berlin and Göttingen winning prize works: in 1834 about the life and deeds of King Henry I and in 1837 about the authenticity of the Chronicle of Korvei ( with Georg Waitz together).

1841 published a major work from him about the life and writings Sigeberts of Gembloux ( De vita et scriptis Sigiberti, Berlin 1841).

In 1842 he completed his habilitation at the University of Berlin and was appointed here in 1844 to associate professor. Its spread and successful teaching career, which extended over different periods of history and constitutional law, as well as its lively share in the aspirations of the 1840s and 1850s to raise the church life, and to promote, for which he in the press, especially in Cross newspaper, as well as in clubs worked, and through which he entered into closer relations with Friedrich Julius Stahl, kept him from completing his main work, the history of Henry II, from which after his death ( he died on 11 September 1860 in Paris), edited and supplemented by Rudolf Usinger, Hermann Pabst and Harry Bresslau, in the yearbooks of the German Empire appeared ( Berlin and Leipzig, 1862-75, 3 vols ).