Siegfried Hirsch was a German historian

Historian

A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all history in time. If the individual is...

 who was a native of Berlin

Berlin

Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...

. He was a cousin to historian Theodor Hirsch

Theodor Hirsch

Theodor Hirsch was a German historian who was a native of Altschottland, Danzig. He was a cousin to historian Siegfried Hirsch .-Life and career:...

 (1806-1881).

From 1833 to 1836 he was a student at the Universities of Berlin and Königsberg

University of Königsberg

The University of Königsberg was the university of Königsberg in East Prussia. It was founded in 1544 as second Protestant academy by Duke Albert of Prussia, and was commonly known as the Albertina....

. While a student he published an award-winning essay on King Henry I called Das Leben und die Thaten König Heinrichs I (1834). A few years later he was co-author with Georg Waitz

Georg Waitz

Georg Waitz was a German historian and politician.He was born at Flensburg, in the duchy of Schleswig and educated at the Flensburg gymnasium and the universities of Kiel and Berlin...

 (1813-1886) on the publication of "Die Echtheit der Chronik von Korvei.

In 1842 Hirsch received his habilitation at Berlin, and in 1844 was appointed associate professor. In 1860 he died in Paris

Paris

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 prior to finishing his treatise on Holy Roman Emperor Henry II

Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor

Henry II , also referred to as Saint Henry, Obl.S.B., was the fifth and last Holy Roman Emperor of the Ottonian dynasty, from his coronation in Rome in 1014 until his death a decade later. He was crowned King of the Germans in 1002 and King of Italy in 1004...

, which is considered to be Hirsch's principal work. It was subsequently edited by Rudolf Usinger

Rudolf Usinger

Rudolf August Usinger was a German historian who was a native of Nienburg.He studied history at the University of Göttingen, where he was a pupil of Georg Waitz . In 1863 he became a lecturer at Göttingen, and afterwards a professor of history at the Universities of Greifswald and Kiel...

 (1835-1874), Hermann Pabst

Hermann Pabst

Hermann Pabst was a German historian who was a native of Burg bei Magdeburg in the Province of Saxony.He initially studied philology at the University of Bonn, where one of his instructors was Friedrich Wilhelm Ritschl , and afterwards studied history under Georg Waitz at the University of...

 (1842-1870) and Harry Bresslau

Harry Bresslau

Harry Bresslau was a German historian and scholar of state papers and of historical and literary muniments .-Training:...

 (1848-1926), and was published as Jahrbücher des Deutschen Reichs unter Heinrich II (Annals of the German Empire under Henry II). Another noted work by Hirsch was a publication on medieval chronicler Sigebert of Gembloux

Sigebert of Gembloux

Sigebert of Gembloux was a medieval author, known mainly as a pro-Imperial historian of a universal chronicle, opposed to the expansive papacy of Gregory VII and Pascal II...

, titled De vita et scriptis Sigiberti (1841).