1854 - 1926
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, Victor Babeș ranks 333 out of 502. Before 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.
1704 - 1779
HPI: 53.68
Rank: 327
1812 - 1883
HPI: 53.67
Rank: 328
1836 - 1917
HPI: 53.67
Rank: 329
1815 - 1911
HPI: 53.61
Rank: 330
1553 - 1617
HPI: 53.61
Rank: 331
1919 - 2010
HPI: 53.53
Rank: 332
1854 - 1926
HPI: 53.52
Rank: 333
1788 - 1832
HPI: 53.49
Rank: 334
1956 - Present
HPI: 53.46
Rank: 335
1786 - 1862
HPI: 53.44
Rank: 336
1834 - 1918
HPI: 53.38
Rank: 337
1568 - 1622
HPI: 53.32
Rank: 338
1837 - 1902
HPI: 53.30
Rank: 339
Among people born in 1854, Victor Babeș ranks 51. Before 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 54. Before 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.
1854 - 1929
HPI: 54.35
Rank: 45
1854 - 1936
HPI: 54.14
Rank: 46
1854 - 1929
HPI: 54.05
Rank: 47
1854 - 1941
HPI: 54.01
Rank: 48
1854 - 1900
HPI: 53.84
Rank: 49
1854 - 1895
HPI: 53.80
Rank: 50
1854 - 1926
HPI: 53.52
Rank: 51
1854 - 1932
HPI: 53.44
Rank: 52
1854 - 1912
HPI: 53.13
Rank: 53
1854 - 1946
HPI: 52.75
Rank: 54
1854 - 1931
HPI: 52.54
Rank: 55
1854 - 1893
HPI: 52.35
Rank: 56
1854 - 1930
HPI: 52.27
Rank: 57
1864 - 1926
HPI: 54.60
Rank: 48
1838 - 1926
HPI: 54.52
Rank: 49
1848 - 1926
HPI: 53.87
Rank: 50
1860 - 1926
HPI: 53.62
Rank: 51
1861 - 1926
HPI: 53.55
Rank: 52
1866 - 1926
HPI: 53.54
Rank: 53
1854 - 1926
HPI: 53.52
Rank: 54
1883 - 1926
HPI: 53.48
Rank: 55
1892 - 1926
HPI: 52.81
Rank: 56
1857 - 1926
HPI: 52.79
Rank: 57
1847 - 1926
HPI: 52.58
Rank: 58
1849 - 1926
HPI: 52.47
Rank: 59
1874 - 1926
HPI: 52.38
Rank: 60
Among people born in Austria, Victor Babeș ranks 530 out of 1,237. Before 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).
1865 - 1944
HPI: 53.66
Rank: 524
1813 - 1881
HPI: 53.66
Rank: 525
1765 - 1846
HPI: 53.66
Rank: 526
1285 - 1352
HPI: 53.63
Rank: 527
1856 - 1911
HPI: 53.58
Rank: 528
1929 - 2023
HPI: 53.55
Rank: 529
1854 - 1926
HPI: 53.52
Rank: 530
1939 - 1992
HPI: 53.50
Rank: 531
1871 - 1918
HPI: 53.47
Rank: 532
1858 - 1884
HPI: 53.45
Rank: 533
1896 - 1988
HPI: 53.45
Rank: 534
1893 - 1963
HPI: 53.44
Rank: 535
1567 - 1633
HPI: 53.44
Rank: 536
Among physicians born in Austria, Victor Babeș ranks 9. Before 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).
1907 - 1982
HPI: 65.85
Rank: 3
1857 - 1940
HPI: 65.04
Rank: 4
1876 - 1936
HPI: 64.58
Rank: 5
1929 - Present
HPI: 63.65
Rank: 6
1722 - 1809
HPI: 54.33
Rank: 7
1910 - 1948
HPI: 53.87
Rank: 8
1854 - 1926
HPI: 53.52
Rank: 9
1875 - 1932
HPI: 51.37
Rank: 10