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German historian and author

Gerhard Hirschfeld (born 19 September in Plettenberg, Germany) is a German historian and author.

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Alan James Hirschfield (October 10, – January 15, ) was an American film studio executive and philanthropist.

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In a varied career that found him by turns making movies, working as an investment banker and overseeing media companies he had helped finance.

Hirschfeld studied at the Art Students League but had to drop out of school at age 16 to begin earning a living.

From to , he was director of the Stuttgart-based Bibliothek für Zeitgeschichte / Library of Contemporary History, and has been a professor at the Institute of History of the University of Stuttgart since In he also became a visiting professor at the Institute for International Studies, University of Wuhan/China.

Education and career

Hirschfeld studied History, German literature (Germanistik) and political science (Staatsexamen ) at the Ruhr University Bochum and the University of Cologne. He was a lecturer at University College Dublin from to Hirschfeld received his Ph.D.

from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, He was assistant to Professor Wolfgang Mommsen at Düsseldorf University, – From , Hirschfeld was a Fellow with the German Historical Institute London.^[1]

Hirschfeld was director of the Library of Contemporary