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Moritz Kaposi

1837 - 1902

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Moritz Kaposi (Hungarian: Kaposi Mór, pronounced [ˈkɒpoʃi ˈmoːr]; 23 October 1837 – 6 March 1902) was a physician and dermatologist from the Austro-Hungarian Empire who discovered the skin tumor that received his name (Kaposi's sarcoma). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Moritz Kaposi is the 390th most popular physician (down from 361st in 2019), the 303rd most popular biography from Hungary (down from 294th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Hungarian Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Moritz Kaposi ranks 390 out of 726Before him are Carlos Chagas, Ferdinand Sauerbruch, Willi Graf, Filippo Pacini, Frances Oldham Kelsey, and Luigi Carlo Farini. After him are Robert Liston, Paul Hermann, Emil Aarestrup, Johann Lukas Schönlein, Kusumoto Ine, and Hélène Sparrow.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1837, Moritz Kaposi ranks 56Before him are Horace Parnell Tuttle, Liu Yongfu, Itagaki Taisuke, Nicolás Avellaneda, Zhang Zhidong, and Hans von Marées. After him are Franz Overbeck, Ion Creangă, Princess Maria Anna of Anhalt-Dessau, George Dewey, Wilhelm Kühne, and Kabayama Sukenori. Among people deceased in 1902, Moritz Kaposi ranks 35Before him are Imre Steindl, Sergei Ivanovich Mosin, Marie Alfred Cornu, Cato Maximilian Guldberg, Jules Dalou, and Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant. After him are Ivan Yarkovsky, Lazarus Fuchs, Adolf Kussmaul, Fyodor Stravinsky, Hervé Faye, and Kálmán Tisza.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Moritz Kaposi ranks 303 out of 1,077Before him are Frigyes Karinthy (1887), David Schwarz (1850), Leó Weiner (1885), László Mednyánszky (1852), Zoltán Fábri (1917), and Dezső Novák (1939). After him are Elizabeth of Hungary, Queen of Serbia (1255), Ervin László (1932), Máté Zalka (1896), László Benedek (1905), Miklós Németh (1946), and Ferenc Szusza (1923).

Among PHYSICIANS In Hungary

Among physicians born in Hungary, Moritz Kaposi ranks 7Before him are Ignaz Semmelweis (1818), Gabor Maté (1944), Albert Szent-Györgyi (1893), Kálmán Kalocsay (1891), Eva Klein (1925), and Thomas Szasz (1920). After him are Edith Farkas (1921), Emil Zuckerkandl (1849), Vilma Hugonnai (1847), Gabriele Possanner (1860), and Jenő Kamuti (1937).