Friedrich Hirth, Ph.D. (16 April 1845 di Gräfentonna, Saxe-Gotha – 10 Januari 1927 di Muenchen) adalah seorang ahli sinologi Jerman Amerika.

Biografi 
Dia menempuh pendidikan di universitas-universitas di Leipzig, Berlin, dan Greifswald (Ph.D., 1869). Dia berada di layanan bea cukai maritim Tiongkok dari 1870 sampai 1897. Pada tahun 1902, Profesor Hirth diangkat untuk jabatan guru besar bidang studi Tiongkok di Universitas Columbia (Kota New York).

Sebelum Perang Dunia II, koleksi naskah Tiongkok dan buku cetak yang dibuat oleh dia terdapat di Perpustakaan Kerajaan di Berlin, dan koleksi lainnya dari porselen yang cukup penting bersejarah di Museum Gotha; sebagian koleksi Hirth dari Staatsbibliothek di Berlin saat ini berada di Kraków. Sebagai seorang peneliti, dia melakukan riset dalam kesusatraan Tiongkok melalui peniruan metode klasik filologi.

Karya-karya 
  Translates and annotates a merchant log dealing the with the Superintendent of Customs or "Hoppo".
 China and the Roman Orient: Researches into their Ancient and Mediœval Relations as Represented in Old Chinese Records (1885)   
 Ancient Porcelain: A Study in Chinese Mediœval Industry and Trade (1888)
 Text-Book of Documentary Chinese (two volumes, 1885–88)
 Hsin-kuan wên-chien-lu: text book of documentary Chinese, with a vocabulary for the special use of the Chinese customs service (1885)
 新關文件錄 (1909)
 Notes on the Chinese documentary style (1888)
 Notes on the Chinese documentary style (1888)
 Chinesische Studien, volume i (1890)
 Index of the Characters in Dr. Hirth's "Text Book of Documentary Chinese," Arranged by Their Radicals: With a List Giving Their Tones (1892)
 Ueber fremde Einflüsse in der chinesischen Kunst (1896)
 Scraps from a Collector's Note-book, Being Notes on Some Chinese Painters of the Present Dynasty, with Appendices on Some Old Masters and Art Historians (1905) 
 Syllabary of Chinese sounds (1907)
 Research in China ...: pt. 1. Descriptive topography and geology, by Bailey Willis, Eliot Blackwelder, and R.H. Sargent. pt. 2. Petrography and zoology, by Eliot Blackwelder. Syllabary of Chinese sounds, by Friedrich Hirth (1907)
 Chinese metallic mirrors: with notes on some ancient specimens of the Musée Guimet, Paris (1907)
 Research in China ...: pt. 1. Descriptive topography and geology, by Bailey Willis, Eliot Blackwelder, and R.H. Sargent. pt. 2. Petrography and zoology, by Eliot Blackwelder. Syllabary of Chinese sounds, by Friedrich Hirth (1907)
 Research in China ...: Systematic geology, by Bailey Willis (1907)
 The Ancient History of China (1908) 1911 edition
 CHAU JU-KUA: His Work on the Chinese and Arab Trade in the twelfth and thirteenth Centuries, entitled Chu-fan-chï, Translated from the Chinese and Annotated by FRIEDRICH HIRTH and W. W. ROCKHILL, (1911)  with W. W. Rockhill
 Research in China ... (1913)
 The Story of Chang K'ie'n, China's Pioneer in Western Asia (1917)
 Native sources for the history of Chinese pictorial art (1917)

Lihat juga 
 Zhao Rugua

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Ahli sinologi Jerman