PHYSICIAN

Rudolf Virchow

1821 - 1902

Photo of Rudolf Virchow

Icon of person Rudolf Virchow

Rudolf Ludwig Carl Virchow ( 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 his political and social careers. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Rudolf Virchow is the 35th most popular physician (down from 24th in 2019), the 43rd most popular biography from Poland (up from 47th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Polish Physician.

Rudolf Virchow is most famous for his cell theory which states that cells are the basic unit of life. He also believed that disease is caused by changes in cells.

Memorability Metrics

Loading...

Page views of Rudolf Virchow by language

Loading...

Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Rudolf Virchow ranks 35 out of 726. Before him are John Snow, Alois Alzheimer, Christiaan Eijkman, Willem Einthoven, Qa'a, and Li Ching-Yuen. After him are Camillo Golgi, Paul Ehrlich, James Black, Niels Ryberg Finsen, Otto Heinrich Warburg, and Joseph-Ignace Guillotin.

Most Popular Physicians in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1821, Rudolf Virchow ranks 5. Before him are Fyodor Dostoevsky, Charles Baudelaire, Gustave Flaubert, and Hermann von Helmholtz. After him are August Schleicher, Auguste Mariette, Lola Montez, Luitpold, Prince Regent of Bavaria, Elizabeth Blackwell, Wilhelm Tempel, and Louis Vuitton. Among people deceased in 1902, Rudolf Virchow ranks 4. Before him are Émile Zola, Cecil Rhodes, and Swami Vivekananda. After him are Samuel Butler, Levi Strauss, Maria Goretti, Marie Henriette of Austria, Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Albert of Saxony, Francis, Duke of Cádiz, and Ion Ivanovici.

Others Born in 1821

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Others Deceased in 1902

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Rudolf Virchow ranks 43 out of 1,694. Before him are Sigismund II Augustus (1520), Günther von Kluge (1882), Walther Nernst (1864), Arthur Rubinstein (1887), Wojciech Jaruzelski (1923), and Vladislaus II of Hungary (1456). After him are Bronisław Malinowski (1884), Klaus Kinski (1926), Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768), Casimir III the Great (1310), Kurt Alder (1902), and Faustina Kowalska (1905).

Others born in Poland

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Among PHYSICIANS In Poland

Among physicians born in Poland, Rudolf Virchow ranks 2. Before him are L. L. Zamenhof (1859). After him are Paul Ehrlich (1854), Emil von Behring (1854), Albert Sabin (1906), Alexander Bogdanov (1873), Magnus Hirschfeld (1868), Carl Wernicke (1848), Jan Jesenius (1566), Leon Pinsker (1821), Bronisława Dłuska (1865), and Robert Remak (1815).

Polish born Physicians

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous