Georg Joachimsthal

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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.[http://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz37290.html Joachimsthal, Georg] at Neue Deutsche Biographie

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.

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.{{Citation |last=Joachimsthal |title=XXI. Ueber Brachydactylie und Hyperphalangie. (Aus der Kgl. Universitäts-Poliklinik für orthopädische Chirurgie in Berlin ) |date=1898-12-31 |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783112385104-022 |work=Archiv für pathologische Anatomie und Physiologie und für klinische Medicin Band 151 |pages=429–438 |publisher=De Gruyter |doi=10.1515/9783112385104-022 |isbn=9783112385104 |access-date=2023-01-06|url-access=subscription }}