Hans Hirsch

Hans Hirsch
Born
Johann Hirsch

27 December 1878
Zwettl, Lower Austria, Austro-Hungarian empire
Died20 August 1940
Vienna, Reichsgau Wien, Germany
Alma materVienna
Prague
OccupationProfessor of Medieval History

Hans Hirsch (27 December 1878 – 20 August 1940) was an Austrian academic who worked between 1903 and 1914 on the vast "Monumenta Germaniae Historica" sources project, and subsequently became a full-time professional historian. He accepted an ordinary (full) professorship in history at the German University (as it became known after 1918) in Prague as the war ended, transferring in 1926 to the University of Vienna. The focus of his research and teaching was on medieval history. In parallel he built for himself a reputation as a specialist on the (recently "discovered" - or, at least, reclassified by the media) "Sudeten Germans", which marked him out as a more than averagely politicised historian. His application for party membership was still outstanding at the time of his death, however.[1][2][3][4]

  1. ^ "Hirsch Hans, Historiker" (PDF). Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon. Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. 23 August 2004. pp. 329–330. Retrieved 2 January 2022.
  2. ^ Heinz Zatschek (1972). "Hirsch, Hans: Historiker, * 27.12.1878 Zwettl (Niederösterreich), † 20.8.1940 Wien. (katholisch)". Neue Deutsche Biographie. Historische Kommission bei der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (HiKo), München. pp. 214–215. Retrieved 2 January 2022.
  3. ^ Edmund E. Stengel [in German] (1942). "Hans Hirsch". Ein Nachruf. Deutsches Archiv für Erforschung des Mittelalters & DigiZeitschriften e.V., Göttingen. pp. 178–189. Retrieved 2 January 2022.
  4. ^ Peter Autengruber [in German] (July 2013). "Hans-Hirsch-Park, benannt seit 1955 nach Hans Hirsch (* 27.12.1878, † 20.08.1940)" (PDF). Forschungsprojektendbericht: Straßennamen Wiens seit 1860 als „Politische Erinnerungsorte“. Verein zur Wissenschaftlichen Aufarbeitung der Zeitgeschichte, Wien & Stadt Wien. pp. 300–302. Retrieved 2 January 2022.