August Borchard, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

August Borchard

German surgeon

Date of Birth: 04-Jul-1864

Place of Birth: Lemgo, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Date of Death: 19-Feb-1940

Profession: surgeon, university teacher

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

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.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.