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Rudolf Virchow
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German doctor, anthropologist, public health activist, pathologist, prehistorian, biologist and politician (1821-1902)
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Rudolf Virchow (1821–1902) was a German male figure associated with medicine, humanities, art, philosophy, and political science. He had six children. His academic output includes 388 works, which have been cited 2,287 times, and he holds an h-index of 18. Other records list five works from Crossref and twenty works from Open Library.
Notable writings include *The peopling of the Philippines*, *Anthropological papers*, *Post-mortem examinations*, *Auf den Spuren der Antike*, and *Über die Phokomelen und das Bärenweib*. Virchow is recognized in the collections of the Royal Society and the American Academy Arts Sciences. He is also referenced by 537 other encyclopedia articles.
Virchow is associated with the genres of German, Germany, Hannover, Hanover, and NDW. He is the subject of a Commons category and gallery. His recorded quotes include statements regarding the lack of a dividing line between animal and human medicine, and the task of science to stake out the limits of the knowable.
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Biografie, Rudolf Virchow
sammlungen.hu-berlin.de →Eintragstyp Personen ID 47 Titel Prof. Dr. med. Dr. h.c.; Geheimer Medizinalrat Biographische Angaben 1843 Anstellung als Kompanie-Chirurg an der Charité; 1847/48 Anstellung an der Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität; 1849-1856 Lehrstuhl für Pathologische Anatomie in Würzburg; 1856-1902 Anstellung an der Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität; GND-Eintrag VIAF-Eintrag Geburtsdatum 13. Oktober 1821 Todesdatum 5. September 1902 Nachlass Humboldt Universität Berlin; Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften; Deutsche Gesellschaft für Anthropologie, Ethnologie, Früh- und Urgeschichte; Staatsbibliothek Berlin; Studium Medizin Mitgliedschaft Königlich Preußische Akademie der Wissenschaften; Berliner Gesellschaft für Anthropologie, Ethnologie und Urgeschichte; Leopoldina; mehrfache Mitgliedschaften in ausländischen wissenschaftlichen Akademien und Gesellschaften; Stellung ordentlicher Professor für Pathologische Anatomie und Allgemeine Pathologie Institution Institut für Pathologie Rudolf Virchow (Plastische Objekte) Sammlung am Centrum für Anatomie, Charité (Sammlungen) 2000 Objekte der Anatomischen Sammlung in das Pathologisch-Anatomisches Museum eingefügt Biografie, Eduard Hitzig (Personen) E. Hitzig Schüler von R. Virchow Foto, Porträt, Rudolf Virchow (2) (Bilddokumente) Fotografie Virchows Berliner Medizinhistorisches Museum (BMM) der Charité (Sammlungen) Gründer des Pathologisch-anatomischen Museums Biografie, Emil DuBois-Reymond (Personen) Korrespondenz Marmorbüste, Rudolf Virchow (1) (Plastische Objekte) Marmorbüste Rudolf Virchows Foto, Porträt, Rudolf Virchow (1) (Bilddokumente) Porträt Lithographie, Porträt, Rudolf Virchow (1) (Bilddokumente) Porträt Lithographie, Porträt, Rudolf Virchow (2) (Bilddokumente) Porträt Biografie, Hans Virchow (Personen) Rudolf Virchow war Vater von Hans Virchow Biografie, Adolf Bastian (Personen) R. Virchow Lehrer von A. Bastian; Gemeinsame Gründung der Anthropologischen Gesellschaft Biografie, Friedrich Busch (Personen) R. Virchow Lehrer von F. Busch Biografie, Robert Koch (Personen) R. Virchow Lehrer von R. Koch Goldfisch mit "Melanosis" (Plastische Objekte) veterinärmedizinisches Sammlungsobjekt Virchows Unterkiefer mit "Winddorn", Hausrind (Plastische Objekte) veterinärmedizinisches Sammlungsobjekt Virchows
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Carl
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Prussia
- Place of birth
- Świdwin
- Place of death
- Berlin
- Child
- Hans Virchow
- Occupation
- writer
- Educated at
- University of Würzburg
- Employer
- Charité
- Political party
- German Free-minded Party
- Languages spoken
- German
- Native language
- German
- Doctoral advisor
- Robert Froriep
- Doctoral student
- Edwin Klebs
- Field of work
- medicine
- Image
- Rudolf Ludwig Karl Virchow. Photograph by J. C. Schaarwächte Wellcome V0027292.jpg
- Number of children
- 6
- Work location
- Berlin
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- member of
- Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
- birth name
- Rudolf Ludwig Karl Virchow
- described at URL
- www.sammlungen.hu-berlin.de/objekte/-/47
- Commons category
- Rudolf Virchow
- date of birth
- 1821-10-13
- date of death
- 1902-09-05
- topic's main category
- Category:Rudolf Virchow
- Commons gallery
- Rudolf Virchow
- place of burial
- Alter St.-Matthäus-Kirchhof Berlin
- name in native language
- Rudolf Virchow
- nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- cause of death
- heart failure
- writing language
- German
- contributed to creative work
- Popular Science
- Commons Creator page
- Rudolf Virchow
- P8168
- Herøy Bridge
- significant person
- Adolf Bastian
- manner of death
- natural causes
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Encyclopedic overview
Rudolf Ludwig Carl Virchow (/ˈvɪərkoʊ, ˈfɪərxoʊ/ VEER-koh, FEER-khoh; German: [ˈʁuːdɔlf ˈvɪʁço, - ˈfɪʁço]; 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".
Virchow studied medicine at the Friedrich Wilhelm University under Johannes Peter Müller. While working at the Charité hospital, his investigation of the 1847–1848 typhus epidemic in Upper Silesia laid the foundation for public health in Germany, and paved the way for 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". His participation in the Revolution of 1848 led to his expulsion from Charité 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 Würzburg in 1849. After seven years, in 1856, Charité 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 duel challenge by the latter. However, Virchow supported Bismarck in his anti-Catholic campaigns, which he named Kulturkampf ("culture struggle").
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