Michael Henry Hirschberg (April 12, 1847 – March 17, 1929) was a Jewish-American lawyer and judge from New York.
His father was from Prussia (later part of Germany), worked as a merchant,[1] and served as town supervisor, commissioner of excise, and president of Congregation Beth Jacob.
He was admitted to the bar in 1868, and in 1869 he formed a partnership with David A. Scott, who recently retired as Surrogate.
Hirschberg retired from the Appellate Division in 1914 and from the Supreme Court in 1918, at which point he served as an official referee of the 9th Judicial District.
[4] Hirschberg was a trustee of George Washington's Headquarters and a member of the New York State Bar Association and the Freemasons.