Karl Heinrich August Burow

Karl Heinrich August Burow (10 November 1809 in Elbing – 15 April 1874 in Königsberg) was a German surgeon and ophthalmologist.

From 1830 he studied at the University of Königsberg, where his influences included Ludwig Wilhelm Sachs, Karl Ernst von Baer and Karl Friedrich Burdach. In 1839, he obtained his habilitation and in 1844 became an associate professor. In 1846, he opened a private medical clinic in Konigsberg, in which he specialized in ophthalmology and surgery. In 1859, he resigned his professorship and became a Sanitätsrat (medical officer). In 1866 he was a consultant physician to the army of Edwin Freiherr von Manteuffel, and in 1870 he performed in a similar role to the army of Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia.

He was the first surgeon in East Prussia to perform Johann Friedrich Dieffenbach's surgery for strabismus. He is also credited for introducing new methods of blepharoplasty and cheiloplasty. Burow was a passionate advocate of open wound treatment.