Victor Babeș
Victor Babeș | |
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Austro-Hungarian Empire | |
Died | 19 October 1926 | (aged 72)
Resting place | Cantacuzino Institute, Bucharest |
Alma mater | Semmelweis University University of Vienna |
Known for | One of the founders of modern microbiology Important contributions to the study of rabies, leprosy, diphtheria, tuberculosis |
Spouse | Iosefina Thorma |
Children | Mircea |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | Semmelweis University University of Vienna Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy |
Notes | |
Vincențiu Babeș (father) Sophia Goldschneider (mother) |
Victor Babeș (Romanian pronunciation:
Origin and family
Victor Babeș was the son of Vincențiu Babeș and Sophia Goldschneider.[5] His father was a Romanian magistrate, teacher, journalist and politician from the Banat region of Hungary, founding member of the Romanian Academic Society (22 April 1866) and President of History Section of the Romanian Academy (1898–1899).[6] One of the personalities who have distinguished themselves in the fight for the rights of Romanians in Transylvania, Vincențiu Babeș was repeatedly deputy in the Vienna Award and president of the Romanian National Party. Victor had a sister, Alma, and a brother, Aurel. The younger brother of Victor Babeș, Aurel, was a chemist and worked with Victor at the Institute of Bucharest. The son of Aurel, Aurel A. Babeș, was also a physician, and discovered a screening test for cervical cancer.
Victor Babeș was married to Iosefina Thorma, with whom he had a son, Mircea.[5]
Studies
In childhood, Victor Babeș was always attracted to poetry, music and especially literature, as well as performance sport, natural science and dramatics. He began studying dramatic arts in Budapest. The death of his sister, Alma, caused by tuberculosis, at a young age, led him to abandon started studies and enroll in medicine.[6] He attended the Faculty of Medicine in Budapest and Vienna. Victor received his doctorate in medicine in Vienna, in 1878. In 1881 he received a scholarship and went to Paris and Berlin, where he worked with leading teachers of the time: Cornil, Louis Pasteur, Rudolf Virchow, Robert Koch and others.[6] He continued to study with great teachers from Munich, Heidelberg, and Strasbourg until 1886.
Scientific activity
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He began his scientific career as an assistant in the Pathological Anatomy laboratory from Budapest (1874–1881). In 1885 he was appointed professor of
Babeș's scientific endeavours were wide-ranging. He was the first to demonstrate the presence of tuberculous
In 1887, Babeș is called in the country by Romanian government and appointed professor of pathological anatomy and bacteriology at the Faculty of Medicine in Bucharest. He held this position until 1926. Also in 1887, it was established, by Law no. 1197, the Institute of Bacteriology and Pathology, headed by Babeș and that will bear in the future his name (Victor Babeș Institute). In 1889 he was elected corresponding member of the Romanian Academy, and from 1893 he became titular on this position.
In 1900 he founded the Anatomic Society in Bucharest, dealing with anatomical clinical studies.
Victor Babeș introduced rabies vaccination in Romania, only three years after its initiation by
In recognition of his innovative work in medicine, Victor Babes was elected member of the French
Philosophical conceptions and militant attitude
Besides scientific work, he was closely concerned with the problems of prophylactic medicine (water supply of towns and villages, scientific organization of the anti-epidemic fight, etc.). As director of the Institute that bears his name, Babeș has addressed some of the health and social problems of the time, such as pellagra problem, and formulated realistic solutions on the medical organization of the country, foreseeing the organization of a Ministry of Health. Closely linked with the people, Victor Babeș fought for applying the discoveries of science to improve people's lives. He studied the causes of diseases with mass spreading (pellagra, tuberculosis), drawing attention to their social roots.
Throughout the scientific and social activities, an important role had his
Victor Babeș founded the publications Annals of the Institute of Pathology and Bacteriology (Romanian: Analele Institutului de Patologie și Bacteriologie; 1889), Medical Romania (Romanian: România medicală; 1893) and Archives of medical sciences (French: Archives des sciences médicales; 1895).
Death
Victor Babeș died on 19 October 1926 in Bucharest. His grave is at the Cantacuzino Institute of Bucharest.[5]
Eponyms
- Babeș-Ernst bodies: metachromatic inclusions in the cytoplasm of Gram-positive bacteria such as diphtheria
- Babeș-Negri bodies: inclusions in rabies-infected nervous cells
- Babesia: parasites of the family Hemosporidiae
- Babeș-Bolyai: main university in Cluj-Napoca
Selected published works
- Über Poliomyelitis anterior, 1877
- Über die selbständige combinirte Seiten- und Hinterstrangsclerose des Rückenmarks, [Virchows] Archiv für pathologische Anatomie und Physiologie und für klinische Medicin, Berlin, 1876
- Über einen im menschlichen Peritoneum gefundenen Nematoden, [Virchows] Archiv für pathologische Anatomie und Physiologie und für klinische Medicin, Berlin, volume LXXXI
- Studien über Safraninfärbung, 1881
- Bakterien des rothen Schweisses, 1881
- Eine experimentelle Studie über den Einfluss des Nervensystems auf die pathologischen Veränderungen der Haut, with Arthur von Irsay, Vierteljahresschrift für Dermatologie
- Les bactéries et leur rôle dans l'anatomie et l'histologie pathologiques des maladies infectieuses, Written with Victor André Cornil, 1 volume and Atlas, Paris, F. Alcan, 1885
- Über isoliert färbbare Antheile von Bakterien, Zeitschrift für Hygiene, Leipzig, 1889, 5: 173–190
- Observations sur la morve, Archives de médecine experimentale et d'anatomie pathologique, 1891, 3:619–645
- Atlas der pathologischen Histologie des Nervensystems, with OCLC 14787495
- Untersuchungen über Koch's Kommabacillus, [Virchows] Archiv für pathologische Anatomie und Physiologie und für klinische Medicin, Berlin
- Untersuchungen über den Leprabazillus und über die Histologie der Lepra, Berlin, 1898
- Beobachtungen über Riesenzellen, Stuttgart, 1905
- Über die Notwendigkeit der Abänderung des Pasteur'schen Verfahrens der Wutbehandlung, Zeitschrift für Hygiene und Infektionskrankheiten, Leipzig, 1908, 58:401–412.
References
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- ^ a b "Biografie Dr. Victor Babeș". Dr. Victor Babeș Medical Diagnostic and Treatment Center.
- ^ Dan Falcan. "Victor Babeș și "Nobelul" ratat al României". Historia.ro.
- ^ a b Cătalina Coclitu (4 September 2007). "Victor Babeș". MedicalStudent.ro.
- ^ "Babes, parintele a 50 de microorganisme". jurnalul.ro. 18 October 2004. Archived from the original on 8 December 2015. Retrieved 29 November 2015.
- ^ a b c "Victor Babeș". Enciclopedia României.
- ^ a b c Elena Solunca Moise (21 December 2011). "Mari personalităţi ale medicinei româneşti: Victor Babeș". Curentul.
- ^ Iuliu Hațieganu (12 December 1926). "Dr. Victor Babeș". Societatea de mâine. III (49–50). Cluj-Napoca.
- ISBN 978-973-85554-4-0.
External links
- Joseph Igiriosianu. "Un grand contemporain de Pasteur: Victor Babeș (1859–1926)" (PDF). Retrieved 8 June 2020.