In the Kaiser's Capital

Dickie, James Francis

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Author:: Dickie, James Francis

Title:: In the Kaiser's Capital

Publication:: New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1912

Language:: English

Digitization:: Berlin: Zentral- und Landesbibliothek Berlin, 2024

Scope:: 315 Seiten

Note:: "History of the American Church in Berlin" im Anhang

Keywords:: Berlin ; Geschichte 1871-1918 ; Kultur ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung

Berlin:: B 184 Kulturgeschichte: 1800 -1918

DDC Group:: 900 Geschichte

URN:: urn:nbn:de:kobv:109-1-15493784

Collection:: History,Cultural History

Location:: Zentral- und Landesbibliothek Berlin

Shelfmark:: B 184/132

Copyright:: Public Domain

Accessibility:: Free Access

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Title:: Chapter XIV. Dr. Rudolph Virchow

CHAPTER XIV DR. RUDOLPH VIRCHOW OCTOBER, 190I, the eightieth birthday of Dr. Ru. dolph Virchow, was an event of international im- portance in the medical world. From all parts of the civilised world eminent physicians gathered to- gether in Berlin to do him honour. Lord Lister from Great Britain, a man equally celebrated, who had ren- dered services to humanity no less beneficent, was perhaps the most conspicuous of that distinguished company. It was regarded as eminently proper that the American colony should take some share in doing honour to one whose services as a lover of humanity and a benefactor to his race were so extraordinary. Accordingly, along with Mr. William E. Curtis and others, we waited upon Dr. Virchow at his home in Schellingstrasse. He received us with evident pleas- ure, and as we congratulated him in his mother- tongue, he was greatly amused. ‘I thought,” said he, that I would be addressed in a language foreign to me, and that I should thank you in words that would be like Greek to you.” We found that he had a strong sense of humour, that wonderful saving grace of society for which we never heard that he re- ceived credit. We were gratified by receiving invita- tions to attend the evening celebration, when he was to be publicly honoured by his own countrymen and TER

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