Victor Babes

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Victor Babes

Victor Babes (born July 4, 1854 in Vienna , Austrian Empire , † October 19, 1926 in Bucharest ) was a Romanian pathologist and microbiologist .

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Babeș grew up in Vienna, his mother came from an influential Viennese family, while his Romanian father came from the Banat and was a member of parliament. Babeș initially studied dramaturgy at the Budapest Conservatory and only switched to medical school after his sister died of tuberculosis . After a year of study in Budapest, he completed his medical studies in Vienna from 1872 to 1878.

First he worked in pathological histology in Budapest , where he had been working as an assistant from 1874 and from 1885 to 1889 as a professor . In 1887 he moved to Bucharest and was appointed professor in the Department of Pathological Anatomy and Bacteriology as well as the first director of the newly created Institute of Pathology and Bacteriology, which still bears his name today. He is considered a major initiator of the Romanian University of Microbiology.

Babeş devoted himself in his research to the pathology of the nervous system and the skin . He described the Babesia later named after him for the first time in Paris in 1888 as the cause of hemoglobinuria in Romanian cattle and recognized that these infectious protozoa ( piroplasms ) are the causative agents of Texas fever . Also, tuberculosis , diphtheria , leprosy and rabies among his research topics. Infectious diseases in animals caused by babesia are commonly referred to as babesiosis .

Since 1886 he was married to the daughter of the Hungarian archaeologist Károly Torma .

Honors

The Romanian University of the City of Cluj was named Babes University from 1945 in honor of Victor Babes. Since 1959 it has been called Babeş-Bolyai University after merging with the Hungarian-speaking University . The Victor Babes Medical and Pharmaceutical University in Timisoara is also named after him .

Fonts

  • About anterior poliomyelitis. 1877.
  • Studies on saffron coloring. 1881.
  • Bacteria of the red sweat. 1881
  • Victor Babeș, Victor André Cornil : Les bactéries et leur rôle dans l'anatomie et l'histologie pathologiques des maladies infectieuses. Paris: F. Alcan, 1885.
  • Victor Babeș, Gheorghe Marinescu , Paul Oscar Blocq : Atlas of the pathological histology of the nervous system. Berlin: Hirschwald, 1892.
  • Studies on the leprosy bacillus and on the histology of leprosy. Berlin 1898.
  • Observations on giant cells. Stuttgart 1905.

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SURNAME Babes, Victor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian pathologist
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH October 19, 1926
Place of death Bucharest