Rudolf Carl Virchow lived in nineteenth century Prussia, now Germany, and proposed that omnis cellula e cellula, which translates to each cell comes from another cell, and which became a fundamental concept for cell theory.irchow’s research at Wuerzburg würzburg helped to establish the concept of cellular, pathology the idea that all diseases are caused by changes in normal. Cells virchow argued that life was merely the sum of the processes of cellular. activities