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Victor Babeș

1854 - 1926

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Victor Babeș (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈviktor ˈbabeʃ]; 28 July 1854 in Vienna – 19 October 1926 in Bucharest) was a Romanian physician, bacteriologist, academician and professor. One of the founders of modern microbiology, Victor Babeș is author of one of the first treatises of bacteriology in the world – Bacteria and their role in pathological anatomy and histology of infectious diseases, written in collaboration with French scientist Victor André Cornil in 1885. In 1888, Babeș underlies the principle of passive immunity, and a few years later enunciates the principle of antibiosis. He made early and significant contributions to the study of rabies, leprosy, diphtheria, tuberculosis and other infectious diseases. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Victor Babeș is the 338th most popular physician (down from 337th in 2019), the 496th most popular biography from Austria (up from 527th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Austrian Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Victor Babeș ranks 338 out of 726. Before him are Carlos Finlay, Aletta Jacobs, Sir John Pringle, 1st Baronet, Dorothea Erxleben, Fernando J. Corbató, and Louis de Jaucourt. After him are Richard Wilhelm, Prospero Alpini, Mary Putnam Jacobi, Friedrich Hoffmann, Horace Wells, and Masawaiyh.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1854, Victor Babeș ranks 49. Before him are Grand Duchess Vera Konstantinovna of Russia, Zhang Xun, Konstantin Jireček, Takahashi Korekiyo, Aletta Jacobs, and Friedrich Alfred Krupp. After him are Benjamin Tucker, Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers, Anna Bilińska, Isidor Gunsberg, Stefan Stambolov, and Viktor Dankl von Krasnik. Among people deceased in 1926, Victor Babeș ranks 48. Before him are Ivana Kobilca, Émile Coué, Nikolay Chkheidze, Leonid Krasin, Francis Ysidro Edgeworth, and Désiré-Joseph Mercier. After him are Léon Charles Thévenin, Albert Robida, Krste Misirkov, Annie Oakley, Bertha Wegmann, and Ye Wanyong.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Victor Babeș ranks 496 out of 1,424. Before him are Viktor Schauberger (1885), Prince René of Bourbon-Parma (1894), Maria von Trapp (1905), Petar Brzica (1917), Leopold Figl (1902), and Ilse Aichinger (1921). After him are Alexander Korda (1893), Thomas Gold (1920), Ernst Marischka (1893), Sylvester Stadler (1910), Ernst Ocwirk (1926), and Hermann Gmeiner (1919).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Austria

Among physicians born in Austria, Victor Babeș ranks 9. Before him are Eric Kandel (1929), Aribert Heim (1914), Hans Selye (1907), Hans Asperger (1906), Irmfried Eberl (1910), and Leopold Auenbrugger (1722). After him are Paul Neumann (1875), Bénédict Morel (1809), and Fritz Klein (1932).

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