August Borchard

August Borchard, born in Lemgo in 1864 and died in Berlin in 1940, was a German physician and surgeon. He studied medicine at Freiburg, Munich, Würzburg and Jena and received his doctorate at Jena in 1888 with a thesis on carcinomas of the antrum of Highmore. He then worked as an assistant in the pathological institute at Marburg and as a physician in the surgical clinic at Königsberg, and in 1895 became a senior physician in the surgical department of the Diakonissenhaus in Posen. He later moved to the Friedrich Wilhelm University of Berlin, where he attained a professorship in 1908. In 1930 he became a member of the Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, in 1934 and 1935 he served as president of the German Association for Trauma Surgery, and he was co-publisher and editor of the Archiv für klinische Chirurgie and the Zentralblatt für Chirurgie.