biography
| name: |
Virchow, Rudolf (Carl)
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pronunciation:
[veerkhoh]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1821–1902)
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| biography:
| Physician, politician, anthropologist, and founder of cellular pathology, born in Swidwin, NW Poland (formerly Schivelbein, Germany). He studied medicine at Berlin, and became professor of pathological anatomy at Würzburg (1849) and Berlin (1856). His Cellularpathologie (1858) confirmed Remak's observation that all cells derive from a pre-existing cell, and established the importance of cellular pathology. He contributed to the study of tumours, leukaemia, hygiene, and sanitation. As a Liberal member of the Reichstag (1880–93), he was an opponent of Bismarck. A co-founder of the German Anthropological Society (1869), he was largely responsible for the growth of anthropology in Germany. |
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