Georg Joachimsthal (8 May 1863 – 28 February 1914) was a German orthopedist who was native of Stargard in Pommern.
In 1887 he earned his medical doctorate from Friedrich Wilhelm University with a dissertation on scoliosis titled Zur Pathologie und Therapie der Skoliose, and afterwards remained in Berlin as an assistant to Julius Wolff (1836-1902). He received his habilitation in 1898, and two years later founded a private clinic. In 1908 he became an associate professor and director of the orthopedic university polyclinic in Berlin.[1]
In Berlin, Joachimsthal performed important experimental studies involving the physiological effects of orthopedic procedures. He was a founding member of the Deutschen Orthopädischen Gesellschaft (German Orthopedic Society), and in 1910 founded the Berlin Orthopedic Society.[1]
In 1905 he published a highly regarded textbook on orthopedic surgery called Handbuch der Orthopädischen Chirurgie. In 1907 became an editor of the Zeitschrift für Orthopädische Chirurgie.[2]
References
- Catalog of scientific collections of the Humboldt University of Berlin (biographical information)
- The American Journal of Orthopedic Surgery (obituary)
- 1 2 Joachimsthal, Georg at Neue Deutsche Biographie
- ↑ Joachimsthal (1898-12-31), "XXI. Ueber Brachydactylie und Hyperphalangie. (Aus der Kgl. Universitäts-Poliklinik für orthopädische Chirurgie in Berlin )", Archiv für pathologische Anatomie und Physiologie und für klinische Medicin Band 151, De Gruyter, pp. 429–438, doi:10.1515/9783112385104-022, ISBN 9783112385104, retrieved 2023-01-06