How to Pronounce Adolf Birch-Hirschfeld
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Oct 01, 1849 Kiel, Schleswig Holstein, Germany Died on 11 Jan 1917 (aged 67)
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About Adolf Birch Hirschfeld
- 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.
