Auguste Broca

Born in Paris in 1859, Auguste Benjamin Broca was a French surgeon and the son of the celebrated physician Paul Broca. He built his own career in medicine, becoming known especially for his work in children's surgery and orthopedics.

Records from French academic and library sources describe him as a professor at the Faculty of Medicine in Paris, with appointments in infant surgical medicine and later in surgery for children and orthopedics. He worked at hospitals including Trousseau and Tenon, and he served as president of the Société de chirurgie in 1917.

Broca also published medical works that circulated internationally, including books on artificial limbs and operative anatomy. He died in Paris in 1924, leaving a reputation as an important figure in French surgical medicine of his era.