August Borchard (4 July 1864,

Lemgo Lemgo (; nds, Lemge, Lemje) is a small university town in the Lippe district of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is situated between the Teutoburg Forest and the Weser Uplands, 25 km east of Bielefeld and 70 km west of Hannover. T ...

– 19 February 1940,

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) was a German physician and surgeon. He studied medicine at the Universities of

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and

Jena Jena () is a German city and the second largest city in Thuringia. Together with the nearby cities of Erfurt and Weimar, it forms the central metropolitan area of Thuringia with approximately 500,000 inhabitants, while the city itself has a po ...

, receiving his doctorate at the latter institution in 1888 with a thesis on carcinomas of the antrum of Highmore, ''Ueber Carcinome der Highmorshöhle''. Afterwards, he worked as an assistant in the pathological institute at

Marburg Marburg ( or ) is a university town in the German federal state (''Bundesland'') of Hesse, capital of the Marburg-Biedenkopf district (''Landkreis''). The town area spreads along the valley of the river Lahn and has a population of approxima ...

and as a physician in the surgical clinic at the

University of Königsberg The University of Königsberg (german: Albertus-Universität Königsberg) was the university of Königsberg in East Prussia. It was founded in 1544 as the world's second Protestant academy (after the University of Marburg) by Duke Albert of Pruss ...

. In 1895, he was a senior physician in the surgical department at the ''Diakonissenhaus'' in Posen. He later moved to

, where he attained a professorship in 1908.Google Books
Aachen - Braniß by Walter De Gruyter (biography in German) In 1930, he became a member of the

Academy of Sciences Leopoldina The German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (german: Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften), short Leopoldina, is the national academy of Germany, and is located in Halle (Saale). Founded ...

. In 1934/35, he served as president of the ''Deutschen Gesellschaft für Unfallchirurgie'' (German Association for

Trauma Surgery Trauma surgery is a surgical specialty that utilizes both operative and non-operative management to treat traumatic injuries, typically in an acute setting. Trauma surgeons generally complete residency training in general surgery and often fe ...

). He was co-publisher and editor of the ''Archivs für klinische Chirurgie'' and the ''Zentralblatts für Chirurgie''.

Selected works

* ''Über Lungenschüsse'', 1917. * ''Lehrbuch der Kriegs-chirurgie'', (with

Viktor Schmieden Viktor Schmieden (19 January 1874 – 11 October 1945) was a German surgeon born in Berlin. In 1897 he earned his medical doctorate from the University of Bonn, and subsequently worked in hospitals in Göttingen, Berlin and Bonn. Later he was ...

), 1917 – Textbook of war surgery. * ''Die deutsche Chirurgie im Weltkrieg 1914 bis 1918'', (with Viktor Schmieden), 1920 – German surgery during the War Years 1914–1918. * ''Lehrbuch der Chirurgie'' (with Carl Garré), 1920 – Textbook of surgery.WorldCat Identities
Most widely held works by August Borchard

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Borchard, August 1864 births 1940 deaths Burials at Stahnsdorf South-Western Cemetery People from Lemgo People from the Principality of Lippe German surgeons University of Jena alumni Academic staff of the Humboldt University of Berlin