Rudolf Virchow or Rudolof Verkhov is a German physician who made a number of important contributions to medicine, public health and other fields, including archeology, and he was reputed to be the father of modern pathology or pathology, and he presented the theory of how cells are formed, specifically the idea that every cell comes From another cell, Virchow also helped make medicine more scientifically accurate, as many of the medical theories that preceded Virchow were not based on scientific observations and experiments.

Virchow was born on October 13, 1821 AD in Scheffelbein, Kingdom of Prussia (now in Poland) and was the only child of his father, Karl Siegfried Virchov, who was a farmer and treasurer, and his mother is Maria Hess. Their son's getting an education, he attended Virchow at the local elementary school, and when he reached high school he was the best student in his class.

In 1839 A.D. Virchow obtained a scholarship to study medicine from the Prussian Military Academy, and the goal of the scholarship was to prepare him to become a military physician for the army, and Virchow studied at the Friedrich Wilhelm Institute, which is part of the University of Berlin, and at the institute he worked with Johannes Müller and Johann Schönlein, two professors of medicine They taught him how to use laboratory techniques in his experiments. After graduating from the institute in 1843, he worked as a trainee at a German teaching hospital in Berlin.

There, he learned the basics of microscopy and worked with Robert Frörib, a pathologist, and learned from him the most important theories about the causes and methods of treating diseases. During that period, scientists believed that they could understand nature by understanding elementary principles instead of making concrete experiments and observations. Therefore, most scientific theories at that time were incorrect or misleading. Therefore, Virchow's goal became to change the drug so that it would be based on scientific foundations.

Virchow became a licensed physician in 1846, and traveled to Austria and Prague in 1847 AD, then became a teacher at the University of Berlin, and he taught a number of people who later became influential scientists, including two of the founders of Johns Hopkins Hospital, and Virchow also began publishing a new journal About anatomy, physiology, and the clinical doctor in partnership with a colleague in 1847 A.D. It was called (Archives) and now its name has become (Archives of Virchow), and it is one of the influential publications in pathology until today.

In 1848, Virchow helped assess an outbreak of typhus in Silesia, a poor region of Poland. This experience affected Virchow, and he became an advocate for government participation in public health, increased education, and social medicine based on the idea that improving social conditions The economic can improve people's general health.

In 1848, Virchow helped establish a weekly publication called Medical Reform, which promoted the idea of ​​social medicine and the idea that doctors were the natural advocates of the poor. In 1949, Virchow became the head of the Department of Pathological Anatomy at the University of Weersberg, Germany, and in 1855 AD he published his famous article entitled (omnis cellula e cellula), which means (that every cell comes from another cell).

Although he was not the first to come up with this idea, but he is considered the first to gather many facts about it. In 1856 AD, Virchow became the first director of the Pathology Institute at the University of Berlin, and in addition to his research, Virchow remained active in politics, and in 1859 AD, he was elected as a member of the Berlin City Council, a position he held for 42 years.

As a councilor of municipalities who helped improve health and other things, such as meat inspection in Berlin, water supply and hospital systems, he was also active in national policy of Germany, and became a founding member of the German Progressive Party. In 1902, while Virchow was jumping from the tram, the tram moved and fell and hit his hip, and his health continued to deteriorate until he died later in the same year when he was 80 years old.