Georg Joachimsthal

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).

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.

[1] In 1905 he published a highly regarded textbook on orthopedic surgery called Handbuch der Orthopädischen Chirurgie.