August Borchard

|birth_place=Lemgo, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany |death_date= |death_place=Berlin, Germany |nationality=German |alma_mater=University of Freiburg
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
University of Jena |occupation= }} 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''. Provided by Wikipedia