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Victor Babeş
Victor Babeş (July 4, 1854 - October 19, 1926) was a Romanian biologist and one of the earliest bacteriologists.
Born in Vienna in a family from the Banat, he studied in Budapest, then in Vienna, where he received his doctorate.
In 1885 he discovered a parasitic sporozoan of the ticks that was named Babesia (of genus Babesiidae) after him and which causes a rare and severe disease called babesiosis.
He became a member of the Romanian Academy, of the Paris Académie de Médicin and an officer of the French Legion of Honour.