Otto Hirschfeld, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Otto Hirschfeld

Prussian and German historian

Date of Birth: 16-Mar-1843

Place of Birth: Königsberg

Date of Death: 27-Mar-1922

Profession: historian, university teacher, art historian, archaeologist

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Otto Hirschfeld (March 16, 1843 – March 27, 1922) was a German epigraphist and professor of ancient history who was a native of Königsberg. In 1863 received his doctorate from the University of Königsberg, and in 1869 became a professor at the University of Göttingen.
In 1872 he became a professor of classical studies at the University of Prague, and in 1876 a professor of epigraphy and ancient history at the University of Vienna.
In 1885 he succeeded Theodor Mommsen (1817-1903) as professor of ancient history at the University of Berlin, where he remained until his retirement in 1917. At Vienna he organized the Archeologic-Epigraphic Seminary with archaeologist Alexander Conze (1831-1914).
Hirschfeld edited several volumes of the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, in which he largely dealt with inscriptions of Gaul and Germania.
Other writings include: Untersuchungen auf dem Gebiete der römischen Verwaltungsgeschichte (1876), Inscriptiones Galliae Narbonensis Latinae (1888) and Inscriptiones Aquitaniae et Lugdunensis (1899).



Alternative names	Rudolf Duhrkoop
Description	German photographer
Date of birth/death	1 August 1848	3 April 1918
Location of birth/death	Hamburg	Hamburg
Work location	Hamburg
Authority control	: Q86542 VIAF: 17513864 ISNI: 0000 0000 6660 7690 ULAN: 500072014 LCCN: no2014076892 GND: 116235373 WorldCat