Adolf Birch-Hirschfeld, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Adolf Birch-Hirschfeld

German linguist

Date of Birth: 01-Oct-1849

Place of Birth: Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

Date of Death: 11-Jan-1917

Profession: university teacher, romanist, linguist

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Libra

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.