Ernst Gustav Kirsch (September 13, 1841 – January 8, 1901) was a German engineer.
Kirsch was educated at Sorbonne, in Zürich and in Berlin.
He was a professor from 1874 at the Chemnitz University of Technology in Chemnitz, Germany.
Kirsch is primarily known for the Kirsch equations describing the elastic stress state around a hole.
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