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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Victor Babeș has received more than 111,080 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Victor Babeș is the 337th most popular physician (down from 333rd in 2019), the 527th most popular biography from Austria (up from 528th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Austrian Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Victor Babeș ranks 337 out of 726. Before him are Eugene Botkin, Gabor Maté, Jack Kevorkian, William Bates, Realdo Colombo, and Filippo Pacini. After him are Mondino de Luzzi, Nikolai Korotkov, Paul Janssen, Thomas Szasz, James Braid, and Max Heindel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1854, Victor Babeș ranks 52. Before him are Stefan Stambolov, Konstantin Jireček, Benjamin Tucker, Patrick Geddes, Sergei Korsakoff, and Viktor Dankl von Krasnik. After him are Alois Lexa von Aehrenthal, Anna Bilińska, Charles Angrand, Vasil Radoslavov, Christiaan de Wet, and Ottmar Mergenthaler. Among people deceased in 1926, Victor Babeș ranks 52. Before him are Francis Ysidro Edgeworth, Annie Oakley, Helen Allingham, Leonid Krasin, Katō Takaaki, and Ivana Kobilca. After him are Lars Magnus Ericsson, Charles Angrand, Léon Charles Thévenin, Josias von Heeringen, Albert Robida, and Carlos Schwabe.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Victor Babeș ranks 527 out of 1,424. Before him are Carl Zeller (1842), Karl Michael Ziehrer (1843), Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1822), Maria Antonia of Austria (1669), Franz Kutschera (1904), and Catherine of Austria, Duchess of Calabria (1295). After him are Ernst Ocwirk (1926), Ingrid Haebler (1926), Marlen Haushofer (1920), Ulrich von Liechtenstein (1200), Johann Strauss III (1866), and Ernst Marischka (1893).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Austria

Among physicians born in Austria, Victor Babeș ranks 9. Before him are Aribert Heim (1914), Róbert Bárány (1876), Julius Wagner-Jauregg (1857), Eric Kandel (1929), Irmfried Eberl (1910), and Leopold Auenbrugger (1722). After him are Bénédict Morel (1809), Paul Neumann (1875), and Fritz Klein (1932).

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