List of Famous people with last name Virchow

Rudolf Virchow

Rudolf Ludwig Carl Virchow

First Name Rudolf

Last Name Virchow

Born on October 13, 1821

Died on September 5, 1902 (aged 80)

Born in Poland, West Pomeranian Voivodeship

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". He received the Copley Medal of the Royal Society in 1892. He was a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and was elected to the Prussian Academy of Sciences, but he declined to be ennobled as "von Virchow".

Know him/her

Don't know him/her

Hans Virchow

First Name Hans

Last Name Virchow

Born on September 10, 1852

Died on May 10, 1940 (aged 87)

Born in Germany, Bavaria

Know him/her

Don't know him/her