Rudolf Virchow, German anthropologist, pathologist, and biologist (born 1821)

Rudolf Virchow

German doctor and polymath (1821–1902)

Rudolf Ludwig Carl Virchow 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".