“if I lie on my sofa and blow the possibilities away from me, as another man may blow the smoke of his cigar, I can, of course, sympathize with such dreams. But they don”
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Rudolf Virchow
Rudolf Ludwig Carl Virchow 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".
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science · German doctor and polymath (1821–1902) · biologist · anthropologist · paleontologist · archaeologist · prehistorian · politician · physician · university teacher · pathologist · paleoanthropologist · also Rudolf Virchow, Rudolf Ludwig Karl Virchow, Rudolph Virchow, Rudolf Ludwig Carl Virchow, Teoría Celular, Virchow
Born 13 October 1821 · Died 5 September 1902 · Q76432
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2026· 2 entries
“contrary to the conscience of the natural scientists, who reckons only with facts.”
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2024· 1 entry
Nature: Rudolf Virchow Klinikum Glauchau, Germany
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2022· 1 entry
Rochester Institute of Technology: Hardin receives Rudolf Virchow Award
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2020· 1 entry
When the two journalists Markus Grill and David Bruser, in cooperation with the archivist Nils Seethaler, succeeded in identifying four skulls of indigenous Canadians that were thought to be lost and which came into Virc
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2010· 2 entries
The New England Journal of Medicine: Rudolf Virchow
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The New England Journal of Medicine: Disease, Life, and Man: Selected essays by Rudolf Virchow.
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1915· 1 entry
In Berlin, jointly honouring Virchow and Bernhard von Langenbeck
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1902· 3 entries
Died 1902-09-05.
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“Cellular pathology is not an end if one cannot see any alteration in the cell. Chemistry brings the clarification of living processes nearer than does anatomy. Each anatomical change must have been preceded by a chemical one.”
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“The future is with the vegetarians.”
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1901· 1 entry
Won Cothenius Medal (1901).
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1898· 1 entry
Won Helmholtz Medal (1898).
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1893· 1 entry
Won Croonian Medal and Lecture (1893).
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1892· 3 entries
Won Copley Medal (1892).
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Was awarded the British Royal Society's Copley Medal
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Was appointed Rector of the Berlin University
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1887· 1 entry
And sent it to Virchow, who identified it as "pachydermia verrucosa laryngis"
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1886· 1 entry
And concluding that there could be neither a Jewish nor a German race, were regarded as a blow to anti-Semitism and the existence of an "Aryan race"
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1885· 1 entry
Launched a study of craniometry, which gave results contradictory to contemporary scientific racist theories on the "Aryan race", leading him to denounce the "Nordic mysticism" at the 1885 Anthropology Congress in Kar
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1884· 1 entry
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1884).
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1882· 1 entry
The Prussian education policy officially excluded natural history in schools
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1881· 1 entry
Rudolf-Virchow-Foundation was established on the occasion of his 60th birthday
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1880· 1 entry
Was elected member of the Reichstag of the German Empire
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1875· 1 entry
With Robert Koch, whose paper he edited on the subject
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1873· 1 entry
Was elected to the Prussian Academy of Sciences
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1872· 2 entries
Awarded Order of Olga (1872).
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And presented his observations before the Berliner Gesellschaft für Anthropologie, Ethnologie und Urgeschichte
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1870· 2 entries
Founded the Berlin Society for Anthropology, Ethnology, and Prehistory (Berliner Gesellschaft für Anthropologie, Ethnologie und Urgeschichte) which was very influential in coordinating and intensifying German archaeol
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Led a major excavation of the hill forts in Pomerania
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1869· 1 entry
Co-founded the German Anthropological Association
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1868· 1 entry
Awarded honorary member of the Physics Association (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) (1868).
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1866· 1 entry
Marie Virchow (29 June 1866 – 23 October 1951), the editor of Rudolf Virchow, Briefe an Seine Eltern, 1839 bis 1864 (published in 1906) and the wife of Carl Rabl, an Austrian anatomist
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1865· 1 entry
When he discovered pile dwellings in northern Germany
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1862· 2 entries
Became leader of the Radical or Progressive party; and from 1880 to 1893, he was a member of the Reichstag
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Was elected as an international Member of the American Philosophical Society
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1861· 1 entry
Was elected foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
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1860· 1 entry
Was elected official Member of the Königliche Wissenschaftliche Deputation für das Medizinalwesen (Royal Scientific Board for Medical Affairs)
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1859· 1 entry
Became a member of the Municipal Council of Berlin and began his career as a civic reformer
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1857· 2 entries
Was the first to describe a type of tumour called chordoma that originated from the clivus (at the base of the skull)
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Was the first description of vertebral disc rupture
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1856· 4 entries
Charité reinstated him to its new Institute for Pathology
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As distinct species and ancestral to modern humans
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Returned to Berlin to become the newly created Chair for Pathological Anatomy and Physiology at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-University, as well as Director of the newly built Institute for Pathology on the premises of the
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Was the first description of congenital pulmonary lymphangiectasia (the name given by K
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1855· 2 entries
Suggested that cancers arise from the activation of dormant cells (perhaps similar to cells now known as stem cells) present in mature tissue
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That Remak might be right, he published Remak's work as his own, causing a falling-out between the two
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1849· 2 entries
And Deutsche Gesellschaft für Pathologie in 1897
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Although within a year he was reinstated as prosector "on probation"
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1848· 1 entry
Became a turning point in politics and public health in Germany
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1847· 2 entries
Was appointed to his first academic position with the rank of privatdozent
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Later renamed Virchows Archiv), and Zeitschrift für Ethnologie (Journal of Ethnology)
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1846· 1 entry
And immediately succeeded Froriep as hospital prosector at the Charité
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1845· 2 entries
Virchow and John Hughes Bennett independently observed abnormal increases in white blood cells in some patients
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Giving the earliest known pathological descriptions of leukemia
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1844· 1 entry
Was appointed as medical assistant to the prosector (pathologist) Robert Froriep, from whom he learned microscopy which interested him in pathology
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1839· 2 entries
With a thesis titled A Life Full of Work and Toil is not a Burden but a Benediction
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Received a military fellowship, a scholarship for gifted children from poor families to become army surgeons, to study medicine at the Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin (now Humboldt University of Berlin)
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1821· 1 entry
Born 1821-10-13.
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