Moritz Kaposi

Moriz Kaposi [ kɒpoʃi ] ( born October 23, 1837 in Kaposvar, Hungary, † March 6, 1902 in Vienna) was a Hungarian- Austrian physician.

Life

The initial idea was his surname Kohn, the conversion to the Catholic faith, he changed his surname in Kaposi as a tribute to his home Kaposvar.

In 1855 he began to study medicine in Vienna, where he received his doctorate in 1861 for Dr. med. In his habilitation thesis " Dermatology and Syphilis ," which he presented in 1866, he took his leave early as Syphilidologe, his teaching license in 1874 has therefore been extended to include the specialist dermatology. In 1875, he was now appointed associate professor, was appointed to the University of Vienna. In 1881 he was a board member of the General Hospital in Vienna and Director of the range skin diseases.

With his boss Ferdinand von Hebra, he wrote the book " Manual of Skin Diseases " ( 1878). His major work was " pathology and therapy of skin diseases in lectures for general practitioners and students " (1880 ). He was married to one of the daughters of Hebra. In 1881, after the death of his teacher, Ferdinand von Hebra, Kaposi was put in charge of the Department of Dermatology and syphilidology at the General Hospital in Vienna. Seven years before his death, he was appointed full professor.

Services

Are counted more than 150 publications of Kaposi. 1876 ​​appeared the second part of Hebra'schen Manual of Skin Diseases, which originates predominantly from Kaposi; He was followed by 1880, the pathology and therapy of skin diseases in lectures for general practitioners and students. The Hand Atlas of Skin Diseases (1898-1902), provided with 242 chromolithographic boards, presented a valuable aid for the diagnostician dar.

The pathology Salomon Stricker connected to Kaposi behaved the " etiological departure of the eighties " against reserved. The then burgeoning bacteriology, would revolutionize the entire pathology later, he took a long time is not it. Blind for etiological had Kaposi up later convinced of the tuberculous nature of lupus vulgaris, and he who Syphilidologe, held also in 1886 when Augusto Ducrey the causative agent of chancroid was detected under the microscope at the firmly Unitätslehre of syphilis and was also in 1891 published its based thereon pathology and treatment of syphilis in 2nd edition.

He is committed to positivism and realism of the "objective" facts Medicine Carl von Rokitansky and Joseph Skodas. The advanced laboratory physicians appearing as methodological Konservatist, Moriz Kaposi held immovably to the Wiener Clinical Medicine formative principle that ". The clinical observation, the control of clinical material is the first in our school of ambition " Moritz Kaposi one of the major Nosologen the Vienna school of the 19th century.

Kaposi's great achievement lies in the area of the clinic; he is regarded as one of the most virtuosic Nosographen the Viennese School. On the one hand he grasped, more accurate than its predecessor, already known diseases, such as the Rhinoscleroma, on the other hand, he described a number of skin diseases new. These include diabetic and leukemic lesions, the xeroderma pigmentosum, the Syringoma and the Sarcoma mihi, as he called it in 1872, first described by him multiple idiopathic Pigmentsarkom.

Since it was discovered in 1949 the frequent occurrence of Kaposi's sarcoma especially among the Bantu in Uganda, the interest of the world turned to investigating this disease: A Conference in Uganda in 1962 was entirely devoted to this problem; a symposium in the United States, which took place in the same year, was dedicated to the exploration of these in their etiology was still unclear disease. Epidemiological binding of Kaposi's sarcoma in the AIDS virus, as " AIDS-associated tumor " is detected 1981. An anamnestic relationship between the 5 classic case descriptions Kaposi in 1872, and AIDS is impossible to establish.

In Vienna Danube City ( 22nd District ) is named the Kaposigasse after him.

Works

  • Textbook of skin diseases. In 1878. ( With Ferdinand von Hebra )
  • Pathology and therapy of skin diseases in lectures for general practitioners and students. In 1880.
  • Pathology and treatment of syphilis., 1881.
  • Malignant neoplasm. Enke, Stuttgart. In 1987.
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