Victor Babeș
Romanian physician (1854-1926) · Hungary · On the map · Doctors · Died at 72
Victor Babeș was a Romanian physician, bacteriologist, academician and professor.
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Bust of Victor Babeș in front of Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca
Stamp issued to commemorate the 125th anniversary of the founding of the Victor Babeș National Institute
The memorial Victor Babeș museum on Strada Andrei Mureșan in Bucharest
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One of the founders of modern microbiology, Victor Babeș is the 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 underlined the principle of passive immunity, and a few years later he enunciated the principle of antibiosis. He made early and significant contributions to the study of rabies, leprosy, diphtheria, tuberculosis and other infectious diseases. He also discovered more than 50 unknown germs and foresaw new methods of staining bacteria and fungi. Victor Babeș introduced rabies vaccination and founded serotherapy in Romania.
