sentences:  Burchard was born in Heilsberg (modern Lidzbark Warmiński, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship).He studied medicine in Tübingen, Würzburg and Kiel, taking his doctoral degree in 1900 with a dissertation on "Einige Fälle von vorübergehender Glycosurie".After his studies, he worked as a physician in Berlin and opened his own practice.