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Rudolf Virchow
German doctor and polymath (1821–1902)
Rudolf Ludwig Carl Virchow (VEER-koh, FEER-khoh;[1]German:[ˈʁuːdɔlfˈvɪʁço,-ˈfɪʁço];[2][3] 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".[4][5][6]
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. From it, he coined a well known aphorism: "Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing else but medicine on a large scale".
His participation in the Revolution of 1848 led