| August Borchard | |
| Birth Date: | 4 July 1864 |
| Birth Place: | Lemgo, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany |
| Death Place: | Berlin, Germany |
| Nationality: | German |
| Alma Mater: | University of Freiburg Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich University of Jena |
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]