August Hirsch

August Hirsch (4 October 1817, Danzig – 28 January 1894, Berlin) was a German physician and medical historian.

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.

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