Max Hirmer (1893-1981)
was a German botanist, publisher and photographer.
Hirmer was born on 14 April 1893 in Straubing. After graduating from the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich in 1913, he studied
archaeology, art history and natural sciences. Hirmer received his doctorate from the
University of Munich in 1917 and his habilitation in 1922. He was an adjunct professor in Munich from 1928
but was dismissed by the Nazis in 1936 for political reasons.
Hirmer wrote a number of works of botany including a book and many articles on
phyllotaxis.
As a photographer, Hirmer worked mainly in the field of art and archeology. In 1948 he, together with his wife Aenne (1912-2017),
founded
the ''Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliches Lichtbild'', or ''Society for the Scientific Photographic Image''. This became the
Hirmer-Verlag publishing house, which published numerous art studies and illustrated books. Hirmer's own books published with the firm included ''Ägypten. Architektur, Plastik, Malerei in drei Jahrtausenden'' (''Egypt: Three Millennia of Architecture, Sculpture and Painting'') for which he provided the photographs.
Selected works
* ''Zur Lösung des Problems der Blattstellungen'', 1922.
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* With
Eberhard Otto Eberhard Otto (26 February 1913, Dresden – 11 October 1974 Heidelberg) was a German Egyptology, Egyptologist.
Otto studied from 1932 to 1937 in Leipzig, Munich and Göttingen and after his Promotion (Germany), Promotion in 1938 and his Habilitati ...
and
Christiane Desroches-Noblecourt: ''Ägypten: Architektur, Plastik, Malerei in drei Jahrtausenden.'' Vierte neu bearbeitete und sehr erweiterte Auflage. Hirmer, München 1967, republished as ''Ägyptische Kunst.'', Taschenbuch, München 1971, and .
References
External links
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Hirmer Verlag
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1893 births
1981 deaths
20th-century German botanists
People from Straubing