Victor BabeÈ™

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

Babeş grew up in Vienna, and his mother came from an influential family in Vienna, while his Romanian father came from Banat and Member of Parliament was. Initially studied dramaturgy at the Babeş Budapest Tutorial and changed only to study medicine, after his sister had died of tuberculosis. After a year of study in Budapest, he completed his medical studies in Vienna 1872-1878.

He initially worked in Pathological Histology of Budapest, where he worked as an assistant since 1874 and at times from 1885 to 1889 worked as a professor. In 1887 he moved to Bucharest and was appointed professor in the Department of Pathological Anatomy and Bacteriology and named the first director of the newly created Institute of Pathology and Bacteriology, which still bears his name today. He is regarded as a key initiator of the Romanian Academy of Microbiology.

Babeş devoted himself in his research particularly the pathology of the nervous system and the skin. He described the later named after him Babesia first time in 1888 in Paris as the cause One hemoglobinuria in Romanian cattle and realized that this infectious protozoa ( piroplasms ), the causative organism of Texas fever. Even tuberculosis, diphtheria, leprosy, and rabies among his research subjects. Caused by Babesia infections in animals are generally called Babesiosis.

The Romanian University of Cluj contributed since 1945 to honor Victor Babeş the name Babeş University. Since 1959 she is, after merger with Hungarian-speaking University Babes- Bolyai University.

Since 1886, he was married to the daughter of the Hungarian archaeologists Károly Torma (approx ).

Works

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