Aleksander Hirschberg

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Aleksander Hirschberg (1847–1907) was a Polish historian.

He was born at Lemberg (now Lviv, Ukraine) on 15 December 1847, and studied at the University there. From 1872 to 1875 he worked as a secondary school teacher. From 1875 he was a Privatdozent at the University, and from 1878 he worked in the library of the Ossolineum.{{cite web |last1=Dokumentation |first1=Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon und biographische |title=Hirschberg, Aleksander |url=https://www.biographien.ac.at/oebl/oebl_H/Hirschberg_Aleksander_1847_1907.xml |website=ISBN 978-3-7001-3213-4 |language=de |date=2003}}

In 1881 Hirschberg founded, with Jan Amborski and others, the Towarzystwo Oświaty Ludowej (People's Education Society), of which he was the chair from 1882 to 1901. He was made a Professor of the University of Lemberg in 1905.