Editing Rudolf Virchow (section)

===''Kulturkampf''===
Virchow supported Bismarck in an attempt to reduce the political and social influence of the Catholic Church, between 1871 and 1887.<ref name="Progs">"This anti-Catholic crusade was also taken up by the Progressives, especially Rudolf Virchow, though Richter himself was tepid in his occasional support." [https://www.mises.org/story/1787 Authentic German Liberalism of the 19th century] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090610035217/http://www.crea.polytechnique.fr/index.htm |date=10 June 2009 }} by Ralph Raico</ref> He remarked that the movement was acquiring "the character of a great struggle in the interest of humanity". He called it ''Kulturkampf'' ("culture struggle")<ref name=kulturkampf/> during the discussion of [[Adalbert Falk]]'s [[Falk Laws|May Laws]] (''Maigesetze'').<ref name="virchrow">A leading German school teacher, Rudolf Virchow, characterized Bismarck's struggle with the Catholic Church as a Kulturkampf{{snd}} a fight for culture{{snd}} by which Virchow meant a fight for liberal, rational principles against the dead weight of medieval traditionalism, obscurantism, and authoritarianism." from [http://www.hermes-press.com/triumph_civ.htm The Triumph of Civilization] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061113151759/http://www.hermes-press.com/triumph_civ.htm |date=13 November 2006 }} by Norman D. Livergood and "Kulturkampf \Kul*tur"kampf'\, n. [G., fr. kultur, cultur, culture + kampf fight.] (Ger. Hist.) Lit., culture war; – a name, originating with Virchow (1821–1902), given to a struggle between the Roman Catholic Church and the German government" [http://www.freedict.co.uk/words/k/kulturkampf.php Kulturkampf] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210412044417/http://www.freedict.co.uk/words/k/kulturkampf.php |date=12 April 2021 }} in freedict.co.uk</ref> Virchow was respected in Masonic circles,<ref name="Virchowrespected">"Rizal's Berlin associates, or perhaps the word "patrons" would give their relation better, were men as esteemed in Masonry as they were eminent in the scientific world—Virchow, for example." in "[[Jose Rizal]] as a Mason" by Austin Craig, ''The Builder Magazine'', [http://www.phoenixmasonry.org/the_builder_1916_august.htm August 1916 – Volume II – Number 8] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210412045737/http://www.phoenixmasonry.org/the_builder_1916_august.htm |date=12 April 2021 }}</ref> and according to one source<ref name="VirchowMason">"It was a heady atmosphere for the young Brother, and Masons in Germany, Dr. Rudolf Virchow and Dr. [[Fedor Jagor]], were instrumental in his becoming a member of the Berlin Ethnological and Anthropological Societies." From [http://srjarchives.tripod.com/1998-10/PEARSON.HTM Dimasalang: The Masonic Life Of Dr. Jose P. Rizal By Reynold S. Fajardo, 33°] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210412044450/http://srjarchives.tripod.com/1998-10/PEARSON.HTM |date=12 April 2021 }} by Fred Lamar Pearson, Scottish Rite Journal, October 1998</ref> may have been a [[freemason]], though no official record of this has been found.