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213:, and advance in the society, which he could not have done being of Jewish faith. This seems unlikely because he married Martha Hebra and converted to Catholicism several years prior to changing his name, by which time he was already well established in the Vienna University faculty and a close associate of her father, Ferdinand. A more plausible explanation is based on his own comments to colleagues that he changed his name to avoid confusion with five other similarly named physicians on the Vienna faculty. Rumors about the sincerity of both his marriage and his concerns about his Jewish ancestry may have arisen through professional jealousy ( 36: 133: 217:(1857–1935), first professor and chairman of dermatology in Bordeaux: "On disait de Kaposi qu'il avait pris la fille de Hebra, sa maison, sa chaire et sa clientèle, laissant le reste à son beau-frère Hans Hebra." ("It was said of Kaposi that he had taken the daughter of Hebra, his home, his chair and his clientele, leaving the rest to his brother-in-law, Hans Hebra.") 319:, which he had discovered in five elderly male patients and which he initially named "idiopathic multiple pigmented sarcoma". More than a century later, the appearance of this disease in young gay men in 346:, a superb clinician and renowned teacher". While his mentor, Ferdinand von Hebra, is considered the "father of German dermatology", Kaposi was one of the first to establish dermatology on its anatomical 260:(Pathology and Therapy of the Skin Diseases in Lectures for Practical Physicians and Students), published in 1880, which became one of the most significant books in the history of 209:
faith, he changed it to Kaposi in 1871, in reference to his town of birth. One purported reason behind this is that he wanted to marry a daughter of current dermatology chairman,
241:(1866) he made an important contribution to the field. Kaposi was appointed as professor at the University of Vienna in 1875, and in 1881 he became a member of the board of the 556: 546: 571: 541: 336: 498: 272:("Ueber Xeroderma pigmentosum. Medizinische Jahrbücher, Wien, 1882: 619–633"). Among other diseases, Kaposi was the first to study 536: 531: 100: 394:
English translation of article describing Kaposi's sarcoma: "Kaposi M. Idiopathic multiple pigmented sarcoma of the skin".
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or KSHV, discovered in 1993. Kaposi's sarcoma is now the most commonly reported cancer in parts of sub-Saharan Africa.
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According to J. D. Oriel, "in his lifetime, Moritz Kaposi was acknowledged as one of the great masters of the
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Pathologie und Therapie der Hautkrankheiten in Vorlesungen für praktische Ärzte und Studierende
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Pathologie und Therapie der Hautkrankheiten in Vorlesungen für praktische Ärzte und Studierende
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Together with his mentor, Ferdinand Ritter von Hebra, he authored the book
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family, originally his surname was Kohn; but, with his conversion to the
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was one of the first indications that a new disease, now called
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4:265–73 (original article describing Kaposi's sarcoma).
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who discovered the skin tumor that received his name (
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Hungarian
[ˈkɒpoʃiˈmoːr]
physician
dermatologist
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Kaposi's sarcoma
Kaposvár
Hungary
Austrian Empire
Jewish
Catholic
Ferdinand Ritter von Hebra
William Dubreuilh
medicine
University of Vienna
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Vienna General Hospital

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