Werner Hirschmann

{{Short description|German acarologist}}

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| birth_place = Fürth

|death_date = {{death date and age|1993|09|10|1921|11|14|df=y}}

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| fields = Acarology

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Werner Hirschmann(1921 - 1993) was a German acarologist (zoologist specializing in mites).{{Cite web |last=Link |first=Andreas |title=Zobodat - Personen: Werner Hirschmann |url=https://www.zobodat.at/personen.php?id=10076121 |access-date=2024-09-20 |website=www.zobodat.at}}{{cite journal|title=Obituary Werner Hirschman|volume=20|issue=1 |journal=Internat. J. Acarol|pages= 67–68|author=Egon Popp |url=https://www.zobodat.at/biografien/Hirschmann_Werner.pdf}}

In 1951 he earned a

doctorate from the University of Erlangen, with the thesis: "Subcorticale Parasitiformes und die Gattung Digamasellus Berlese 1905", but like many German acarologists, he earned a living as a high school biology teacher.

He described over 1400 taxa, but his methods of defining mite genera have not always been accepted.