Theodor Hirsch (17 December 1806 – 17 February 1881) was a German historian who was a native of Altschottland, Danzig. He was a cousin to historian Siegfried Hirsch (1816-1860).

Life and career

Born

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, he converted to Christianity and studied history and theology at Berlin, and in 1833 became a teacher at a secondary school in Danzig, where he would teach history for the next 32 years. At Danzig he focused on the

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of the city, and in 1850 was responsible for re-arrangement and supervision of the municipal

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. In 1865 Hirsch became an associate professor at the

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and director of

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Works

In 1858 he published one of his better known works, ''Danzig's Handels- und Gewerbegeschichte Unter der Herrschaft des Deutschen Ordens'' (Danzig's Commercial and Industrial History under the Reign of the Teutonic Order). With Ernst Strehlke (1834-1869) and Max Töppen (1822-1893), he edited '' Scriptores Rerum Prussicarum'', a scholarly five-volume work on early

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history.

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19th-century German historians Writers from Gdańsk People from West Prussia Academic staff of the University of Greifswald 19th-century German Jews Converts to Christianity from Judaism 1806 births 1881 deaths 19th-century German male writers German male non-fiction writers Polish schoolteachers {{Germany-historian-stub