Rudolf Virchow, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Rudolf Virchow

German doctor, anthropologist, public health activist, pathologist, prehistorian, biologist and politician

Date of Birth: 13-Oct-1821

Place of Birth: Ĺšwidwin, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 05-Sep-1902

Profession: physician, politician, biologist, university teacher, paleontologist, pathologist, academic, archaeologist, anthropologist, prehistorian, paleoanthropologist

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About Rudolf Virchow

  • Rudolf Ludwig Carl Virchow (; German: ['f??ço] or ['v??ço]; 13 October 1821 – 5 September 1902) was a German physician, anthropologist, pathologist, prehistorian, biologist, writer, editor, and politician.
  • He is known as "the father of modern pathology" and as the founder of social medicine, and to his colleagues, the "Pope of medicine".
  • He received the Copley Medal in 1892.
  • He was a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and was elected to the Prussian Academy of Sciences, but he declined to be ennobled as "von Virchow". Virchow studied medicine at the Friedrich-Wilhelms Institute under Johannes Peter MĂĽller.
  • He worked at the CharitĂ© hospital under Robert Froriep, whom he succeeded as the prosector.
  • His investigation of the 1847–1848 typhus epidemic in Upper Silesia laid the foundation for public health in Germany, and paved his political and social careers.
  • From it, he coined a well known aphorism: "Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing else but medicine on a large scale".
  • He participated in the Revolution of 1848, which led to his expulsion from CharitĂ© the next year.
  • He then published a newspaper Die Medizinische Reform (The Medical Reform).
  • He took the first Chair of Pathological Anatomy at the University of WĂĽrzburg in 1849.
  • After five years, CharitĂ© reinstated him to its new Institute for Pathology.
  • He co-founded the political party Deutsche Fortschrittspartei, and was elected to the Prussian House of Representatives and won a seat in the Reichstag.
  • His opposition to Otto von Bismarck's financial policy resulted in an anecdotal "Sausage Duel", although he supported Bismarck in his anti-Catholic campaigns, which he named Kulturkampf ("culture struggle").A prolific writer, his scientific writings alone exceeded 2,000.
  • Cellular Pathology (1858), regarded as the root of modern pathology, introduced the third dictum in cell theory: Omnis cellula e cellula ("All cells come from cells").
  • He was a co-founder of Physikalisch-Medizinische Gesellschaft in 1849 and Deutsche Gesellschaft fĂĽr Pathologie in 1897.
  • He founded journals such as Archiv fĂĽr Pathologische Anatomie und Physiologie und fĂĽr Klinische Medizin (with Benno Reinhardt in 1847, from 1903 under the title Virchows Archiv), and Zeitschrift fĂĽr Ethnologie (Journal of Ethnology).
  • The latter is published by German Anthropological Association and the Berlin Society for Anthropology, Ethnology and Prehistory, the societies which he also founded.Virchow was the first to describe and christen diseases such as leukemia, chordoma, ochronosis, embolism, and thrombosis.
  • He coined biological terms such as "chromatin", "neuroglia", "agenesis", "parenchyma", "osteoid", "amyloid degeneration", and "spina bifida"; terms such as Virchow's node, Virchow–Robin spaces, Virchow–Seckel syndrome, and Virchow's triad are named after him.
  • His description of the life cycle of a roundworm Trichinella spiralis influenced the practice of meat inspection.
  • He developed the first systematic method of autopsy, and introduced hair analysis in forensic investigation.
  • He was critical of what he described as "Nordic mysticism" regarding the Aryan race.
  • As an anti-evolutionist, he called Charles Darwin an "ignoramus" and his own student Ernst Haeckel a "fool".
  • He described the original specimen of Neanderthal man as nothing but that of a deformed human.

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