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Dora P. Hirsch photograph album [DIGITAL CONTENT]
No full textThis 72-page album contains 151 photos dated from 1898 to 1904, taken at the home and in the neighborhood of the Pollock/Hirsch families in Little Rock, as well as at resort areas near Little Rock
Hirsch Family Collection, Halberstadt 1765-1980 Bulk dates: 1810-1910
No full textThe Hirsch Family, Halberstadt Collection documents the lives of Hirsch family members in the city of Halberstadt and the business of Aron Hirsch & Sohn located there. Included in the collection are personal papers such as vital documents and correspondence, business records including balance sheets and account books, correspondence, certificates and official announcements. Other papers include family trees, genealogical notes, and articles and essays about the family and their business.The following individuals are mentioned in this collection:Auerbach, Siegfried; Hildesheimer, A; Hirsch, Aron; Hirsch, Benjamin; Hirsch, Siegmund; Rau, Max; Rau, Moses; Schmidt, Rudolf; Schwab, Hermann; Tramer, Hans; Weltsch, Robert.In 1780 the Rabbi Naphtali Hirsch Gumprecht Göttingen moved to Halberstadt to attend the city's "Klaus" (an institution for Talmudic study). His eldest son was Aron Gumprecht Göttingen, born in Halberstadt in 1783. Following the Napoleonic edict that required Jews to select surnames in 1808, Aron chose the name "Hirsch."In 1805 Aron Hirsch (1783-1842) founded a metal business, taking advantage of existing copper and silver mines in the nearby Harz mountains. Eventually, his son Joseph (1809-1871) and other relatives joined the new family business “Aron Hirsch & Sohn”, which expanded to trade in copper, tin, zinc, and lead, as well as in alloys and chemicals. By the mid-1800s Halberstadt had become a center of the metal trade in Europe. Throughout his life, Joseph Hirsch was not only active in the Jewish community of Halberstadt, but he also initiated charitable institutions city-wide. He befriended Halberstadt’s well-known rabbi Benjamin Hirsch Auerbach, whose children, Julie and Selig married Joseph Hirsch’s children Benjamin and Rosa.In 1863, Joseph Hirsch’s brother Gustav (1822-1898) extended the firm to include the brass works (Messingwerke) near Eberswald in Prussia, close to the Finow Canal.Following Joseph Hirsch’s death in 1871, his eldest son Benjamin took over the firm's leadership. Benjamin Hirsch (1840-1911) was instrumental in expanding the firm's international connections to London, New York and Australia, and he acquired the mines of Tetiutse near Vladivostock in Russia, whose government forced him to change his religion. As his father before him, Benjamin Hirsch was head of the Jewish community in Halberstadt, and he helped found the local B'nai B'rith Lodge and bestowed aid to many other Jewish philanthropies.In 1906 the firm created the Hirsch, Kupfer und Messingwerke AG in Berlin, specializing in alloys from the brass and copper works near Eberswald and Ilsenburg. The metal trade continued under the name Aron Hirsch & Sohn, and was still administrated from the parent firm in Halberstadt. Following the death of Benjamin Hirsch in 1911, his nephew Aron (1858-1941; son of Benjamin’s brother Siegmund, 1831-1877) took over the leadership of Hirsch, Kupfer und Messingwerke AG in Berlin, passing on the leadership to his own son, Siegmund after World War I. In 1938, following the liquidation of Hirsch, Kupfer und Messingwerke AG in 1932, Siegmund Hirsch went to Egypt, where he established the Egyptian Copper Works.The final head of Aron Hirsch & Sohn in Halberstadt was Benjamin Hirsch’s youngest son Emil (1870-1938). In 1938 Emil Hirsch went to Amsterdam, where he died the very same year.12 p. inventoryProcesseddigitize
A case study : evolution of JASIS' Hirsch index
No full textThe evolution of the Hirsch index of the Journal of the American Society of Information Science over the period 1991-2000 is studied using a variable citation window. A relative h-index is introduced
The Hirsch spectrum: a novel tool for analysing scientific journals
No full textThis paper introduces the Hirsch spectrum (h-spectrum) for analyzing the academic reputation of a scientific journal. h-Spectrum is a novel tool based on the Hirsch (h) index. It is easy to construct: considering a specific journal in a specific interval of time, h-spectrum is defined as the distribution representing the h-indexes associated to the authors of the journal articles. This tool allows defining a reference profile of the typical author of a journal, compare different journals within the same scientific field, and provide a rough indication of prestige/reputation of a journal in the scientific community. h-Spectrum can be associated to every journal. Ten specific journals in the Quality Engineering/Quality Management field are analyzed so as to preliminarily investigate the h-spectrum characteristic
Measuring the Research Contribution of Management Academics using the Hirsch-Index
No full textThere is an increasing emphasis on the use of metrics for assessing the research contribution of academics, departments, journals or conferences. Contribution has two dimensions: quantity which can be measured by number/size of the outputs, and quality which is most easily measured by the number of citations. Recently, Hirsch proposed a new metric which is simple, combines both quality and quantity in one number, and is robust to measurement problems. This paper applies the h-index to three groups of management academics – BAM Fellows, INFORMS Fellows, and members of COPIOR – in order to evaluate the extent to which the h-index would serve as a reliable measure of the contribution of researchers in the management field
Philanthropy vs. unproductive charity. The case of Baron Maurice de Hirsch
No full textIn Argentina today it has become essential for the State to provide assistance to a large portion of the population; nevertheless, this social work lacks purpose unless it is used to encourage those who are assisted to fend for themselves. Otherwise, the beneficiaries would be condemned to virtual indigence, as they would be indirectly excluded from productive society. This concept of philanthropy as opposed to charity is not new; and it is interesting to note that more than one century ago, in Argentina, a singularly successful philanthropic undertaking was carried out that was imbued with this ideology. In 1891 Baron Maurice de Hirsch founded the Jewish Colonization Association, which was to become one of the greatest philanthropic undertakings of its time, through which a gigantic experiment in social welfare was carried out, based on the organized immigration of thousands of people from the Russian Empire to Argentina, with the aim of setting up agricultural colonies. Immigrants were to be given the opportunity to own their land, although this was not a gift, as they were required to pay for it, just as they were required to repay all the loans in kind received during their transfer through to their first harvests, as well as the corresponding interest. This paper represents a first step in the study of this enterprise. In it, we will center our attention on the views on philanthropy held by Baron de Hirsch, illustrating them by reference to the various projects carried out on the basis of that ideologyBaron Maurice de Hirsch, Jewish Colonization Association, philanthropy
Otto Hirsch Collection 1885-2000
No full textdigitizedOtto Hirsch was born in Stuttgart in 1885 as the son of Louis Hirsch (ME 310). He was a co-founder and board member of the Neckar AG which was responsible for the canalization of the Neckar river. After his forced dismissal in 1933 he dedicated himself to Jewish politics and became the chairman of the newly founded "Reichsvertretung der deutschen Juden". He died in the Mauthausen concentration camp in 1941.Photographs removed to Photograph CollectionSee also Otto Hirsch's memoirs (ME 311)A biographical note honoring Otto Hirsch is included in Rueckert, Maria Magdalena (ed.): Wuerttembergische Biographien, vol. I, Stuttgart 2006, p. 113-114
Assessing scientific research performance and impact with single indices
No full textWe provide a comprehensive and critical review of the h-index and its most important modifications proposed in the literature, as well as of other similar indicators measuring research output and impact. Extensions of some of these indices are presented and illustrated.Citation metrics, Research output, h-index, Hirsch index, h-type indices
Allocution de Bernard Hirsch, directeur de l'Ecole nationale des ponts et chaussées
No full textHirsch Bernard. Allocution de Bernard Hirsch, directeur de l'Ecole nationale des ponts et chaussées. In: Les Annales de la recherche urbaine, N°23-24, 1984. Les réseaux techniques urbains. p. 247
Allocution de Bernard Hirsch, directeur de l'Ecole nationale des ponts et chaussées
No full textHirsch Bernard. Allocution de Bernard Hirsch, directeur de l'Ecole nationale des ponts et chaussées. In: Les Annales de la recherche urbaine, N°23-24, 1984. Les réseaux techniques urbains. p. 247
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