Birch-Hirschfeld, Adolf, 1850-1917

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Name (Latin)
Birch-Hirschfeld, Adolf, 1850-1917
Other forms of name
Hirschfeld, Adolf Birch-, 1850-1917
Date of birth
1850-10-01
Date of death
1917-01-11
Gender
male
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 52435743
Wikidata: Q360981
Library of congress: no2012126479
Sources of Information
  • El libro de los enxiemplos del conde Lucanor et de Patronio, 1900:t.p. (Adolf Birch-Hirschfeld)
  • OCLC, Sept. 20, 2012:(hdg. Birch-Hirschfeld, Adolf, 1850-1917)

Wikipedia description:

Adolf Birch-Hirschfeld (1 October 1849, in Kiel – 11 January 1917, in Gautzsch) was a German medievalist and Romance scholar. He was a brother of pathologist Felix Victor Birch-Hirschfeld. He studied philology at the University of Leipzig as a pupil of Adolf Ebert and Friedrich Karl Theodor Zarncke. He received his habilitation in 1878, and for several years conducted research in Paris. In 1884 he became a professor of modern languages at the University of Giessen, and in 1891 returned to Leipzig as a professor of Romance philology.

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