Aleksander Hirschberg

Aleksander Hirschberg (1847–1907) was a Polish historian.

He was born at Lemberg (now Lviv, Ukraine) on 15 December 1847, and studied at the University there.

From 1875 he was a Privatdozent at the University, and from 1878 he worked in the library of the Ossolineum.

[1] In 1881 Hirschberg founded, with Jan Amborski and others, the Towarzystwo Oświaty Ludowej (People's Education Society), of which he was the chair from 1882 to 1901.

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