Babo was the son of the agronomist
Lambert Joseph von Babo and his first wife Karoline Ehrmann. The
oenologist August Wilhelm von Babo was his half-brother. After graduating from high school Babo studied medicine at the Universities of Heidelberg and Munich and received a doctorate in 1842 from Heidelberg. In the following year he began studying chemistry under
Justus von Liebig at
Gießen receiving his
habilitation in 1845 from
Freiburg im Breisgau. On 6 September 1847 he married Elise Baumgärtner in Freiburg and had a daughter and two sons. He became a
Privatdozent at the University of Freiburg
außerordentlicher Professor in 1854 and
ordentlicher Professor in 1859. As such, he was also appointed an expert for the Grand Ducal courts. Babo determined
vapor pressure of water, called
von Babo's law. He also developed the Babo funnel for heating glass flasks, named after him. This consists of an inverted cone stump made from sheet steel with asbestos strips arranged radially on the inside wall. ==Bibliography==