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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 102,733 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Victor Babeș is the 333rd most popular physician (down from 318th in 2019), the 530th most popular biography from Austria (down from 498th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Austrian Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Victor Babeș ranks 333 out of 502Before him are Louis de Jaucourt, Filippo Pacini, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, James Curtis Hepburn, Prospero Alpini, and Tomáš Špidlík. After him are Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat, Gregg L. Semenza, Justinus Kerner, Ewald Hering, Michael Maier, and Moritz Kaposi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1854, Victor Babeș ranks 51Before him are Aletta Jacobs, Sergei Shchukin, Jacek Malczewski, Viktor Dankl von Krasnik, Sergei Korsakoff, and Stefan Stambolov. After him are Patrick Geddes, Alois Lexa von Aehrenthal, Nikolai Alexandrovich Morozov, Prince Thomas, Duke of Genoa, Anna Bilińska, and Isidor Gunsberg. Among people deceased in 1926, Victor Babeș ranks 54Before him are Nikolay Chkheidze, Edwin Abbott Abbott, Albert Robida, Katō Takaaki, Ivana Kobilca, and Carlos Schwabe. After him are Enrico Toselli, Bessie Coleman, Léon Charles Thévenin, Bertha Wegmann, Luther Burbank, and Krste Misirkov.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Victor Babeș ranks 530 out of 1,237Before him are Max Nettlau (1865), Countess Franziska Kinsky of Wchinitz and Tettau (1813), Joseph Leopold Eybler (1765), Elisabeth of Austria, Duchess of Lorraine (1285), Felix Mottl (1856), and Gaston Glock (1929). After him are Marisa Mell (1939), Wilhelm von Mirbach (1871), Hans Rott (1858), Fritz Heider (1896), Ernst Marischka (1893), and Archduchess Margaret of Austria (1567).

Among PHYSICIANS In Austria

Among physicians born in Austria, Victor Babeș ranks 9Before him are Hans Selye (1907), Julius Wagner-Jauregg (1857), Róbert Bárány (1876), Eric Kandel (1929), Leopold Auenbrugger (1722), and Irmfried Eberl (1910). After him are Paul Neumann (1875).