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Rudolf Virchow
German doctor, anthropologist, public health activist, pathologist, prehistorian, biologist and politician (1821-1902)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 13 October 1821
- Died
- 5 September 1902
- Place of birth
- Świdwin
- Place of death
- Berlin
- Sex or gender
- male
- Family name
- Virchow
- Mother
- Johanna Maria Hesse
- Field of work
- cell biology, medicine
- Occupation
- biologist, anthropologist, paleontologist, archaeologist, prehistorian, politician, physician, university teacher, pathologist, paleoanthropologist, writer
- Position held
- member of the Reichstag of the German Empire
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Prussia
- Native language
- German
- Awards
- honorary citizen of Berlin, Copley Medal, Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order, Helmholtz Medal, Cothenius Medal, Croonian Medal and Lecture, Order of Olga, Foreign Member of the Royal Society, honorary member of the Physics Association (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
- archives at
- Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Archive, Berlin State Library, University Archive of the Humboldt University Berlin, Q81164803, Q28738651
- birth name
- Rudolf Ludwig Karl Virchow
- cause of death
- heart failure
- contributed to creative work
- Popular Science
- described by source
- Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978), Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Library of the World's Best Literature, Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890), The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, The Encyclopedia Americana, The American Cyclopædia, Collier's New Encyclopedia, 1921, The New Student's Reference Work
- doctoral advisor
- Johannes Peter Müller, Robert Froriep
- doctoral student
- Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen, Eduard von Rindfleisch, Robert Koch, Edwin Klebs
- educated at
- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, University of Würzburg
- languages spoken, written or signed
- German
- manner of death
- natural causes
- member of
- Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences, French Academy of Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hellenic Philological Society of Constantinople, Royal Society, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences, Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities, Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze detta dei XL
- member of political party
- German Free-minded Party
- name in native language
- Rudolf Virchow
- number of children
- 6
- place of burial
- Alter St.-Matthäus-Kirchhof Berlin
- related category
- Category:Things named after Rudolf Virchow
- significant person
- Adolf Bastian
- student
- Eduard Hitzig, Edwin Klebs, Alfredo Kanthack, Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen, Ernst Haeckel, Otto E. A. Hjelt, Alexander Pagenstecher, Johann Nepomuk Czermak, Michael Anton Biermer, Carl Hueter
- topic's main category
- Category:Rudolf Virchow
- work location
- Berlin
- writing language
- German
Connected on Wikidata
Author of
Subject of
- Ein Zweikampf auf dem Gebiete des Geistes
- Mikrokokken und Bakterien
- Aufruf zur Stiftung eines Ehrengeschenks für Arnold Ruge
- 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Virchow, Rudolf
- Ein preußischer Volksvertreter
- Zu Rudolf Virchows siebzigstem Geburtstag
- The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Virchow, Rudolf
- The American Cyclopædia (1879)/Virchow, Rudolf
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