August Borchard

Education

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.

Career

Afterwards, he worked as an assistant in the pathological institute at Marburg and as a physician in the surgical clincic at the University of Königsberg. In 1895 he was a senior physician in the surgical department at the Diakonissenhaus in Posen. 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.

Achievements

• He later moved to Berlin, where he attained a professorship in 1908.

Membership

German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina]

In 1930 he became a member of the Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.