User:JASpencer/Virchrow

It was during the discussion of Falk’s May Laws (Maigesetze) that the term Kulturkampf was first used by Prussian Liberal and anthropologist Rudolf Virchow. Despite strongly disagreeing with Bismarck on most other issues, Virchow approved of the Kulturkampf, claiming that the anti-clerical laws bore "the character of a great struggle in the interest of humanity". The general ideological enthusiasm among the liberals for the Kulturkampf was in contrast to Bismarck's pragmatic attitude towards the measures and growing disquiet from the Conservatives. . Virchow is reported as a Mason by Masonic sources.