Rudolf+Virchow

Rudolf Virchow[[image:Rudolf_Virchow_by_Hugo_Vogel,_1861.jpg width="172" height="214" align="right"]]
Bio: Rudolf Virchow was born in Schivelbein,Pomerania,Prussia (now Swidwin,Poland) into a farming family on October 21, 1821. When he was 14 Virchow recieved a scholarship to attend high-school in Koslin. After graduating in 1843, he began working at the Charite Hospital. After working there for quite some time,his political views caused Virchow to leave the Charite to become a professor of pathological anatomy at Wurtzburg in Bavaria. That is where he met his wife Rose Mayer,whom he had six children with. Also at Wurtzburg, he formulated the basic biological law that states each cell originates from another cell. This is what Rudolf became most famous for. He also created the fields of cellular pathology and comparative pathology. In 1892, Vichow was awarded the Copley Medal, an award given by the Royal Society of London for great contributions in any branch of science. Another thing he developed was a standardized method of performing an autopsy. After being regarded as a pioneer in social medicine and anthropology for a long period of time, Rudolf Ludwig Virchow died of heart failure on September 5, 1902. Then he was buried in the Saint Matthews cemetary in Schoneburg,Berlin. He died when he was 80 years old.

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