Victor Babes (b. July 4, 1854, Vienna - d. October 19, 1926, Bucharest)

• Romanian doctor and bacteriologist, academic and university professor.

• One of the founders of modern microbiology, author of the first treatise on bacteriology in the world - "Bacteria and their role in the anatomy and pathological histology of infectious diseases", written in collaboration with the French scientist A. V. Cornil in 1885.

• Important contributions to the study of peat, leprosy, diphtheria, tuberculosis.