Andreas Wilhelm Heinrich Brandt

Andreas Wilhelm Heinrich Brandt (born March 31, 1879 in Seckenheim , † August 4, 1929 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German pharmacologist .

Andreas Brandt completed his apprenticeship in Barmen after attending the secondary school. He then worked as a pharmacist's assistant in Elberfeld and Stettin .

He studied at the University of Berlin , where he also passed his pharmaceutical state examination. After his exams, Andreas Brandt was an assistant at Hermann Thoms and took over the administration of a pharmacy in Elberfeld, later continued his studies in Berlin and received his doctorate there in 1915. He became an assistant at the Botanical Institute of the University of Frankfurt a. M and completed his habilitation there in 1917.

In 1919 he was appointed associate professor and he was given the newly established pharmacognosy specialty . A year later he was appointed full professor in the natural science faculty. He was also an expert at the Reich Health Council .

Andreas Brandt, who was the first full professor of pharmacognosy in Germany, made a name for himself as a comparative anatomist and editor of a textbook on pharmacognosy together with Ernst Friedrich Gilg .

Much of his work has appeared in the Pharmazie Archives and the Pharmazeutische Zeitung . Some of the contributions to Thom's Handbook of Practical and Scientific Pharmacy (1928) were made by him. He was also significantly involved in the creation of the drug section in the German Pharmacopoeia 6 (1926).

Publications

• Textbook of Pharmacognosy , 3rd edition, Berlin 1922 [4. Edition Berlin 1927 by Gilg-Brandt-Schürhoff]

literature

• Wolfgang-Hagen Hein, Holm-Dietmar Schwarz: German Pharmacist Biography Volume 1, Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Stuttgart 1975, p. 77.