Johann Friedrich von Brandt explained

Birth Date:May 25, 1802
Birth Place:Jüterbog, Brandenburg, Germany.
Death Place:Merreküll, Duchy of Estonia
Nationality:German
Fields:Zoology, Entomology
Workplaces:St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences
Alma Mater:University of Berlin
Known For:Flora Berolinensis, sive descriptio plantarum phanerogamarum circa Berolinum sponte crescentium vel in agris cultarum additis filicibus et charis (Berlin, 1824), and many others
Author Abbrev Bot:Brandt

Johann Friedrich von Brandt (25 May 1802 – 15 July 1879) was a German-Russian naturalist, who worked mostly in Russia.

Brandt was born in Jüterbog and educated at a gymnasium in Wittenberg and the University of Berlin.

In 1831 he emigrated to Russia,[1] and soon was appointed director of the Zoological Museum of the St Petersburg Academy of Sciences. Brandt encouraged the collection of native animals, many of which were not represented in the museum. Many specimens began to arrive from the expeditions of Severtzov, Przhevalsky, Middendorff, Schrenck and Gustav Radde.

He described several birds collected by Russian explorers off the Pacific Coast of North America, including Brandt's cormorant, red-legged kittiwake and spectacled eider.

As a paleontologist, Brandt ranks among the best. He was also an entomologist, specialising in Coleoptera (beetles) and Diplopoda (millipedes).

He died in Merreküll, Governorate of Estonia.

He is also commemorated in Brandt's bat, Brandt's hedgehog, three other species of mammals, and the lizard Iranolacerta brandtii.[2]

Works

In addition, Johann Friedrich von Brandt concerned the continuation of the work Getreue Darstellung und Beschreibung der in der Arzneykunde gebräuchlichen Gewächse of Friedrich Gottlob Hayne.

Taxa described by Brandt

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Notes and References

  1. Carozzi A. V. Brandt, Johann Friedrich // Dictionary of scientific biography. Vol. 2. N.Y.: C. Scribner’s Sons, 1970. P. 422-423.
  2. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . ("Brandt", p. 37).
  3. https://www.uniprot.org/taxonomy/?query=Brandt&sort=score Uniprot Taxonomy