 Because his articles did not receive favourable attention from German editors, he founded "Archiv für Pathologische Anatomie und Physiologie und für Klinische Medizin" (now known as "Virchows Archiv") with a colleague Benno Reinhardt in 1847.He edited alone after Reinhardt's death in 1852 till his own.This journal published critical articles based on the criterion that no papers would be published that contained outdated, untested, dogmatic or speculative ideas.