Rudolf Virchow Facts
Rudolf Virchow Facts
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| Rudolf Virchow was born in Schievelbein, Germany. |
| His father was a farmer and the city treasurer. |
| He was a brilliant student and was fluent in German, Latin, Greek, Hebrew, English, French and Italian. |
| He graduated at the top of his class and was granted a scholarship become a military surgeon. |
| On October 21, 1843 he earned his M.D. from friedrich-Wilhelms Institute in Berlin with a thesis on corneal manifestations of rheumatic disease. |
| His internship was at the Charite Hospital in Berlin. |
| In 1844 he became an assistant to the pathologist, Robert Froriep and learned microscopy. |
| In 1845 Virchow published the first paper describing leukemia. |
| In 1847 he and his colleague Benno Reinhardt founded the Archiv fur pathologische Anatomie und Physiologie und fur klinische Medizin which would only publish papers which met rigorous scientific standards. |
| His 190-page paper, Report on the Typhus Epidemic in Upper Silesia was published in 1847 and spurred an interest in public health in Germany. |
| Because he supported the Revolution of 1848, he lost his job at the Charite. |
| He started a newspaper, Die Medicinische Reform, to spread ideas of medicine as a social science and the physician as an advocate for the poor. |
| In 1849 he accepted the Chair of Pathological Anatomy at the University of Wurzburg. |
| In 1854 he returned to Charite as head of the Institute of Pathology. |
| He was one of the founders of the Deutsche Fortschrittspartei party and represented it in the Prussian House of Representatives. |
| He was a prodigious writer and wrote over 2000 scientific papers and manuscripts. |
| In 1858 he published his most famous work, Cellular Pathology, which built on the previous work of other scientists and rejected the idea of spontaneous generation. |
| He founded the fields of comparative pathology and cellular pathology and was the first to link human and animal diseases. |
| He described and named several diseases including leukemia and was the first to link cancer to normal cells. |
| Virchow named many medical and scientific terms including chromatin, parenchyma and spina bifida. |
| He traced the life cycle of the roundworm, trichinella spiralis, and proved the importance of meat inspection. |
| He invented the modern method of autopsy which used the systematic microscopic examination of all body parts. |
| Virchow was the first to discover the usefulness of hair analysis in criminal investigations. |
| He made extensive studies of hair, skin and eye color and stated that there was no Aryan race. |
| In 1861 he was elected foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and in 1862 was awarded the Copley Medal. |
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