Emil Hirsch (antiquarian)

Emil Hirsch (born March 14, 1866 in Mergentheim; died July 27, 1954 in New York) was a German antiquarian bookseller.

He then went on to work for Oscar Gerschel in Stuttgart, Zahn & Jaensch in Dresden and back to Munich, where he became a partner of Gottlob Hess in 1892.

Hirsch cultivated contacts with artists and writers, he encouraged Hans von Weber in his Hundertdrucke project and supported the bibliophile Bremen press.

After the National Socialists came to power in 1933, Hirsch was persecuted due to his Jewish heritage and forced out of his business in 1935.

In New York, he worked in the antiquarian bookshop on Madison Avenue run by Walter Schatzki and his son-in-law, who had already fled in 1937.