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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

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Moritz Kaposi has received more than 91,815 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Moritz Kaposi is the 339th most popular physician (down from 284th in 2019), the 261st most popular biography from Hungary (down from 210th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Hungarian Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Moritz Kaposi ranks 339 out of 502Before him are Victor Babeș, Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat, Gregg L. Semenza, Justinus Kerner, Ewald Hering, and Michael Maier. After him are Richard Axel, Frances Oldham Kelsey, Petrus Camper, Carlos Chagas, Olof Rudbeck the Younger, and Johann Peter Frank.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1837, Moritz Kaposi ranks 52Before him are Tippu Tip, Ernest Guiraud, Itagaki Taisuke, John Wesley Hyatt, Franz Overbeck, and Mubarak Al-Sabah. After him are Yohannes IV, Sanjō Sanetomi, George Dewey, Hans von Marées, Zhang Zhidong, and Nicolás Avellaneda. Among people deceased in 1902, Moritz Kaposi ranks 28Before him are Friedrich Alfred Krupp, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Jan Gotlib Bloch, Prudente de Morais, Imre Steindl, and Marie Alfred Cornu. After him are Cato Maximilian Guldberg, Jules Dalou, Ivan Yarkovsky, Sergei Ivanovich Mosin, Ernst Schröder, and Thomas Nast.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Moritz Kaposi ranks 261 out of 866Before him are András Hegedüs (1922), Imre Steindl (1839), Ibolya Csák (1915), László Lovász (1948), Sándor Garbai (1879), and Nicolaus Olahus (1493). After him are Béla Kiss (1877), Miklós Radnóti (1909), Béla Király (1912), Miklós Kállay (1887), Anton Bernolák (1762), and George Tabori (1914).

Among PHYSICIANS In Hungary

Among physicians born in Hungary, Moritz Kaposi ranks 5Before him are Ignaz Semmelweis (1818), Albert Szent-Györgyi (1893), Kálmán Kalocsay (1891), and Thomas Szasz (1920). After him are Emil Zuckerkandl (1849), Eva Klein (1925), Vilma Hugonnai (1847), Edith Farkas (1921), and Gabriele Possanner (1860).