English Name
Maurice Kaposi
Original Name
Mor(itz) Kohn
German Name
Moritz Kaposi
Date, Country, and City of Birth
October 23, 1837, Kaposvár, Hungary
Date, Country, and City of Death
March 6, 1902, Vienna, Austria
History of Life
Moritz Kaposi was born as Moritz Kohn in Kaposvár, chief town of a county in Hungary. His father was employed by the local Jewish community. He attended primary school and grammar school at his native town, but after his family moved to Pozsony (Pressburg, now Bratislava, Slovakia), the former capital of Hungary, he got his baccalaureate in this city. He enrolled in the Medical Faculty of the University of Vienna, Austria, in 1856, where he became MD in 1861 and later, according the rule of this era of high education, Master of Surgery (1962) and then Master of Obstetrics(1866). He was impressed by the new ideas and practice of the so-called Second Viennese Medical School, led by Carl von Rokitansky, Joseph Skoda, and Ferdinand Ritter von Hebra. From 1861...
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Szende, B., Tóth, A., Perner, F., Nagy, K., & Takács, K. (1997). Clinicopathologic aspects of 8 Kaposi’s sarcomas among 1009 renal transplant patients. General and Diagnostic Pathology, 143, 209–213.
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Szende, B. (2016). Kaposi, Mór (1837–1902). In: van Krieken, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Pathology. Encyclopedia of Pathology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28845-1_3993-1
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