Domenico Majocchi

Domenico Majocchi (1849–1929) was an Italian dermatologist. He was born on 5 august 1849 in Roccalvecce, near Viterbo, by Pietro, a local doctor, and by Virginia Tomasetti. He graduated in the faculty of medicine of the Sapienza university of Rome on 11 august 1873. Later on, he was a professor of dermosyphilopathy at the universities of Parma (1880–92) and Bologna (1892–1924). Domenico Majocchi was the first director at Dermatological Clinic of the University of Parma,founded in 1880, where he held a pre-emption to the dermosyphilopathy course, entitled:"The modern direction of dermatology mercé to the progress of pathological anatomy" which represented the manifesto of all his subsequent scientific activity.