neurology, brain, nervous system, hersenen, neurowetenschap

Second edition, revised and enlarged from the first edition of 1853. Born in a ghetto in Central Europe, Hirschfeld was apparently destined for theological studies in a yeshiva, but he escaped from his father's house, walking on foot to Breslau, Berlin, and finally Paris. There he became a protégé of Bourgery, who saw him through medical school. Hirschfeld eventually became Chef de Clinique at the Hôtel Dieu, where he taught both anatomy and surgery. Later Hirschfeld was appointed Professor of Anatomy in Warsaw. Hirschfeld assisted Bourgery in the production of the Traité Complete de l'Anatomie (1832-54) and some of his original contributions to neuroanatomy are published in that work. For his own atlas on the nerves Hirschfeld prepared on the specimens personally, and employed as his artist, J. B. Leveillé, the assistant of Jacob, Bourgery's collaborator. The lithographed plates of the nervous system in this work are of the highest aesthetic quality, and show a close stylistic relationship to the artistic images in Bourgery and Jacob. Some of the best information on Hirschfeld is in the introductory commentary to the 2005 republication of the color plates of Bourgery & Jacob, noticed in the annotation to the first edition of that work in this catalogue. Garrison-McHenry pp. 179, 497; Heirs of Hippocrates 1833 (second edition); Roberts & Tomlinson p. 538