Dermatologist
Moritz Kaposi was born as Moric Kohn in Kaposzvar, Hungary. He worked at the dermatological hospital in Vienna, Austria. He pioneered in the description of several diseases.
After his conversion to Christianity, he was appointed professor of dermatology at the University of Vienna. He was a noted diagnostician and teacher as well as an author and his books, Pathologie und Therapie der Hautkrankenheiten (1879) and Handatlas der Hautkrankenheiten (1879), were the outstanding works on skin diseases at the time. Kaposi’s sarcoma and Kaposi’s disease were named for him.