Hans Virchow

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Hans Virchow (1896)

Hans Virchow (born September 10, 1852 in Würzburg , † May 10, 1940 in Berlin ) was a German doctor and university professor.

Live and act

Virchow studied medicine at the universities of Berlin , Bonn , Strasbourg and Würzburg , where he worked for Albert von Koelliker as a student in 1874 . He wrote his dissertation on the topic: "About the epithelium of the yolk sac in chicken eggs" and received his doctorate in Berlin in 1875. From 1877 to 1882 he worked as an assistant and later as a prosector at the Anatomical Institute of the University of Würzburg . There he completed his habilitation in anatomy in 1882. From 1889 to 1917 Virchow taught as an associate professor for anatomy at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin , from 1917 to 1922 he was an honorary professor at the university. He also taught anatomy at the Berlin University of Fine Arts from 1886 to 1920 .

In 1887 Hans Virchow became a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina .

He took over the chairmanship of the Berlin Society for Anthropology, Ethnology and Prehistory founded by his father Rudolf Virchow three times .

Hans Virchow died in Berlin in 1940 at the age of 87 and was buried in the Old St. Matthew Cemetery in Schöneberg . In contrast to his father's "honorary grave" in the same cemetery, the grave has not been preserved.

literature

  • Nikolaus Muschong: Hans Virchow (1852-1940). Life and work. Medical dissertation Bonn 2011. (as Hans Virchow (1852–1940): Life and work of an anatomist and anthropologist. V&R Unipress, 2013, ISBN 3-8471-0055-6 .)
  • H. Stieve : Hans Virchow in memory. In: Anatomischer Anzeiger. Volume 92, 1942, pp. 297-349.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Reinhard Hildebrand: Rudolf Albert von Koelliker and his circle. In: Würzburg medical history reports. Volume 3, 1985, pp. 127-151, here: p. 143.
  2. ^ Member entry by Hans Virchow at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on February 23, 2013.
  3. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin tombs . Haude & Spener, Berlin 2006. p. 310.
personal data
SURNAME Virchow, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH Wurzburg
DATE OF DEATH May 10, 1940
Place of death Berlin