August Blencke

August Blencke (born November 7, 1868 in Calbe , † January 19, 1937 in Magdeburg ) was a German orthopedist and university professor.

Life

Blencke attended GutsMuths-Gymnasium in Quedlinburg . After graduating from high school, he studied medicine at the Philipps University in Marburg . In 1891 he became active in the Corps Hasso-Nassovia . At the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg for Dr. med. after receiving his doctorate , from 1893 he worked with Albert Hoffa in Würzburg and with Hermann Kümmell at the new Eppendorf General Hospital . In 1896 he opened a special clinic in Magdeburg. He was a part-time school doctor and was involved in the care of the disabled . During the First World War he was a senior staff doctor and regimental doctor in the field artillery regiment No. 4 until March 1915 , then in a field hospital of the IV Army Corps , which ordered him back home as a consulting orthopedic surgeon. In medical and social terms, he took special care of the war invalids . He was valued as an expert by the employers' liability insurance associations and health insurance companies . Appointed professor in 1918 , he headed the congress of the German Orthopedic Society in Magdeburg in 1923. On the way to Hermann Gocht in Leipzig he had an accident with his car in fog. He died of a skull injury at the age of 68.

Accident care . L. Voss, Leipzig 1935.
The neuropathic bone u. Joint affections . Enke, Stuttgart 1931.
Orthopedic apparatus in accident and cash practice . Vogel, Leipzig 1929.
The negotiations of the conference to clarify the question of the so-called orthopedic school gymnastics in Magdeburg . Enke, Stuttgart 1928.
Orthopedic surgery (Hoffa, Albert), 7th edition, edited by Hermann Gocht. Enke, Stuttgart 1925.
with Hermann Gocht: The orthopedic world literature , 1903–1930, 2 volumes; 1936.
The orthopedics of the general practitioner . –Spanish and Russian translations

August Borchard, Walter von Brunn (ed.): German Surgeon Calendar , 1926, p. 23 f.
Isidor Fischer (ed.): Biographical Lexicon of the Outstanding Doctors of the Last Fifty Years , Vol. 1, 1932, p. 129
Bernhard B .: The orthopedic clinic , in: Festschrift for the tenth anniversary of the Medical Academy Magdeburg 1964, 92 f.

personal data
SURNAME	Blencke, August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German orthopedist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	November 7, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH	Calbe
DATE OF DEATH	January 19, 1937
Place of death	Magdeburg