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August Borchard

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August Borchard
Born(1864-07-04)4 July 1864
Died19 February 1940(1940-02-19) (aged 75)
Berlin, Germany
NationalityGerman
Alma materUniversity of Freiburg
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
University of Jena
Occupations
  • Physician
  • surgeon

August Borchard (4 July 1864, Lemgo – 19 February 1940, Berlin) was a German physician and surgeon.

He studied medicine at the Universities of Freiburg, Munich, Würzburg and Jena, 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 and as a physician in the surgical clinic at the University of Königsberg. In 1895, he was a senior physician in the surgical department at the Diakonissenhaus in Posen. He later moved to Berlin, where he attained a professorship in 1908.[1]

In 1930, he became a member of the Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. In 1934/35, he served as president of the Deutschen Gesellschaft für Unfallchirurgie (German Association for Trauma Surgery). He was co-publisher and editor of the Archivs für klinische Chirurgie and the Zentralblatts für Chirurgie.[1]

Selected works

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  • Über Lungenschüsse, 1917.
  • Lehrbuch der Kriegs-chirurgie, (with Viktor Schmieden), 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.[2]

References

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  1. ^ a b Google Books Aachen - Braniß by Walter De Gruyter (biography in German)
  2. ^ WorldCat Identities Most widely held works by August Borchard