Hans Virchow (1852-1940)

Hans Virchow (born October 9, 1852 in Würzburg, d. October 5, 1940 in Berlin) was a German anatomist.

Biography
He studied medicine in Berlin, Bonn, Strasbourg and Würzburg. In the years 1877 to 1882 an assistant, then prosector at the Anatomical Institute of the University of Würzburg. In 1882 his habilitation in anatomy, in 1884 he became Privatdozent at the University of Berlin, in 1889 professor of anatomy. From 1886-1920 he taught anatomy at the Berlin Academy of Fine Arts ( Berlin Hochschule für Künste bildende ). Since 1887 member of the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina.