Victor Babes
Victor Babes (July 4, 1854October 19, 1926) was a Romanian physician, biologist, and one of the earliest bacteriologists. He made early and significant contributions to the study of rabies, leprosy, diphtheria, tuberculosis, and other infectious diseases.
The Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca and the Victor Babes University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Timisoara bears his name.

# Biography
Born in Vienna (at the time, the capital of the Austrian Empire) to an ethnic Romanian family from the Banat, he studied in Budapest, then in Vienna, where he received his doctorate in Science. Attracted by the discoveries of Louis Pasteur, he left for Paris, and worked first in Pasteur's laboratory, and then with Victor Andre Cornil.
In 1885 he discovered a parasitic sporozoan of the ticks, named Babesia (of the genus Babesiidae), and which causes a rare and severe disease called babesiosis. In the same year, he published the first treaty of bacteriology in the world, Bacteria and their role in the histopathology of infectious diseases, which he co-authored with Cornil.
Babes' scientific endeavours were wide-ranging. He was the first to demonstrate the presence of tuberculous bacilli in the urine of infected patients. He also discovered cellular inclusions in rabies-infected nerve cells. Of diagnostic value, they were to be named after him (Babes-Negri bodies).
Babes was one of the founders of serum therapy, and was the first to introduce rabies vaccination to Romania. His work also had a strong influence upon veterinary medicine, especially concerning prophylaxis and serum medication.
He became a professor of Pathology and Bacteriology at the Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Bucharest. He was also a member of the Romanian Academy (in 1893), of the Paris Academie Nationale de Medecine, and an officer of the French Legion d'honneur.
His nephew, Aurel Babes, was also a physician, who discovered a screening test for cervical cancer.

# Eponyms
- Babes-Ernst bodies: metachromatic inclusions in the cytoplasm of gram-positive bacteria such as diphtheria
- Babes-Negri bodies: inclusions in rabies-infected nervous cells
- Babesia: parasites of the genus Hemosporidiae

# Selected published works
- Uber Poliomyelitis anterior, 1877
- Ueber die selbstandige combinirte Seiten- und Hinterstrangsclerose des Ruckenmarks,  Archiv fur pathologische Anatomie und Physiologie und fur klinische Medicin, Berlin, 1876
- Ueber einen im menschlichen Peritoneum gefundenen Nematoden,  Archiv fur pathologische Anatomie und Physiologie und fur klinische Medicin, Berlin, volume LXXXI
- Studien uber Safraninfarbung, 1881
- Bakterien des rothen Schweisses, 1881
- Eine experimentelle Studie uber den Einfluss des Nervensystems auf die pathologischen Veranderungen der Haut, with Arthur von Irsay, Vierteljahresschrift fur Dermatologie
- Les bacteries et leur role dans lanatomie et lhistologie pathologiques des maladies infectieuses, Written with Victor Andre Cornil, 1 volume and Atlas, Paris, F. Alcan, 1885
- Uber isoliert farbbare Antheile von Bakterien, Zeitschrift fur Hygiene, Leipzig, 1889, 5: 173-190
- Observations sur la morve, Archives de medecine experimentale et danatomie pathologique, 1891, 3:619-645
- Atlas der pathologischen Histologie des Nervensystems, with Georges Marinesco and Paul Oscar Blocq, Berlin, Hirschwald, 1892
- Untersuchungen uber Koch's Kommabacillus,  Archiv fur pathologische Anatomie und Physiologie und fur klinische Medicin, Berlin
- Untersuchungen uber den Leprabazillus und uber die Histologie der Lepra, Berlin, 1898
- Beobachtungen uber Riesenzellen, Stuttgart, 1905
- Uber die Notwendigkeit der AbVerfahrens der Wutbehandlunganderung des Pasteur'schen, Zeitschrift fur Hygiene und Infektionskrankheiten, Leipzig, 1908, 58:401-412.
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