RUDOLF VIRCHOW Doctor, Statesman, Anthropologist

From the Jacket Flap: "Rarely is the subject of a biography so literally three-diminsional as Rudolf Virchow. As a Doctor - he was a leading Berlin pathologist, the founder of the cell concept in medicine, with an international reputation that even today is held in high esteem in medical circles. As a Statesman - he became a member of the Prussian parliament and one of the leaders of the opposition against Bismarck in the so-called 'Verfassungskonflikt'...As an Anthropologist - he undertook systematic studies of physical characteristics and culture of German people to shatter the myth of Teutonic superiority...."