Did Rudolf Virchow Agree With Spontaneous Generation?

Did Rudolf Virchow Agree With Spontaneous Generation? Did Rudolf Virchow agree with spontaneous generation? His work in cellular pathology culminated in his 1858 book Die Cellularpathologie (Cellular Pathology). In this book, Virchow argued that the idea of spontaneous generation, like the theory of free cell formation that Matthias Schleiden had proposed, must be rejected in