Johann Friedrich von Brandt | |
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| Born | 25 May 1802 Jüterbog, Brandenburg, Germany. |
| Died | June 15, 1879 (aged 77) |
| Nationality | German |
| 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 |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Zoology, Entomology |
| Institutions | St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences |
| Author abbrev. (botany) | 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]
- ^ Carozzi A. V. Brandt, Johann Friedrich // Dictionary of scientific biography. Vol. 2. N.Y.: C. Scribner’s Sons, 1970. P. 422-423.
- ^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. ("Brandt", p. 37).