From a farming family, Virchow studied chemistry in Berlin at the Military Academy of Prussia on a scholarship. When he graduated in 1842 he went to serve as Robert Froriep's assistant. One of his...
Rudolf Virchow was born Oct. 13, 1821 in Schivelbein, Pomerania, Prussia and died Sept. 5, 1902 in Berlin. He was a German pathologist, anthropologist, and statesman. In 1847 he cofounded the...