Auguste Broca

Born in Paris in 1859, Auguste Benjamin Broca was the son of the celebrated physician and scientist Paul Broca. He trained in medicine in Paris and went on to build a distinguished surgical career, becoming a hospital surgeon and later a professor at the Faculty of Medicine in Paris.

Broca is especially associated with pediatric surgery and orthopedics. Sources on his medical career describe him as a professor of operative surgery and topographical anatomy, and later as chair of children's surgery and orthopedics. He also published important surgical works, including writing on cerebral surgery, middle-ear surgery, amputations, and artificial limbs.

Today he is remembered both as a specialist surgeon and as a medical author whose work reflects a period when modern surgery was rapidly taking shape. For audiobook listeners, his name is most likely to appear on practical, historically important medical texts rather than literary works.