Angelo Maffucci

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Angelo Maffucci (born October 27, 1847 in Calitri near Avellino , Campania , † November 24, 1903 in Pisa ) was an Italian pathologist .

Life

Maffucci received his doctorate under Otto von Schrön in Naples in 1872 and was professor of pathological anatomy, first in Messina in 1882 , then in Catania in 1883 and finally in Pisa from 1884 .

Services

  • 1881 First person to describe the Maffucci syndrome named after him ( Di un caso encondroma ed angioma multiplo. Contribuzione alla genesi embrionale dei tumori . In: Movimento medico-chirurgico , Napoli 1881, 3, pp. 399–412, 565–575.)
  • He succeeded in demonstrating the different etiologies of avian tuberculosis and tuberculosis , which subsequently led to a dispute with Robert Koch .

Web links

  • Maffucci in the Pisa University database (Italian)
  • Short biography at the US National Library of Medicine, PMID 15685797

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ R Ciranni, V Giuffra, S Marinozzi, G. Fornaciari: Angelo Maria Maffucci (1845-1903) and the beginning of pathological anatomy in Pisa . In: Med Secoli . 2004, 16 (1), pp. 31-41, PMID 15685797
personal data
SURNAME Maffucci, Angelo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian pathologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 27, 1847
PLACE OF BIRTH Calitri at Avellino
DATE OF DEATH November 24, 1903
Place of death Pisa