Dietrich Brandis
Sir Ludwig Christian Georg Dietrich Brandis (born March 31, 1824 in Bonn , † May 28, 1907 in Bonn) was a German botanist who is considered the founder of tropical forestry . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is " Brandis ".
Live and act
He was born as the son of philosophy professor Christian August Brandis . After attending school in Bonn, he studied physics, zoology, botany and chemistry in Bonn, Copenhagen and Göttingen from 1843 to 1848 . In 1844 he became a member of the Fridericia Bonn fraternity . He received his doctorate in 1848 at the University of Bonn and habilitated in botany and plant chemistry in 1849 at the same location . Until 1855 he worked as a private lecturer and curator of the university's botanical garden . In 1856 he became "Superintendent of Forests" of the Pegu Province in Burma , until in 1858 he became the head of the forest administration for the whole of British Burma . From 1862 he was forest adviser to the Indian central government in Calcutta and in 1864 became inspector general of the Indian forest office in Dehra Dun . The Imperial Forest Research Institute, which he founded in 1879 and which he founded in 1879, later developed into the Imperial Forest Research Institute, which still exists today as the Forest Research Institute Dehradun (FRI).
In 1878 he was accepted as a Companion in the Order of the Indian Empire and in 1887 knighted as Knight Commander of the same order ("Sir").
The grave of Sir Dietrich Brandis is in the old cemetery in Bonn .
Works
- The Forest Flora of North-West and Central India: A Handbook of the Indigenous Trees and Shrubs of those Countries , 1874
- Illustrations of the Forest Flora of North-West and Central India , 1874 scan
- Indian Trees: An Account of Trees Shrubs Woody Climbers Bamboos & Palms Indigenous or Commonly Cultivated in the British Indian Empire , 1906
literature
- Herbert Hesmer : Life and Work of Dietrich Brandis . Treatises of the Rheinisch-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vol. 58, Opladen 1975, ISBN 3-531-0958-5
- Richard B. Hilf: Brandis, Ludwig Christian Georg Dietrich, Sir. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 524 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Oscar Kauffmann : "Professor Dietrich Brandis." in: Zeitschrift für Forst- und Jagdwesen 40 (1908) 46–49.
- Michael Mann : " Dietrich Brandis (1824–1907) - botanist and founder of tropical forest science. " In: MIDA Archival Reflexicon (2018), ISSN 2628-5029 , 1–6.
Individual evidence
- ^ Franz Richarz: List of members of the Fridericia fraternity in Bonn (February 18, 1843 to autumn 1847) as well as the Arminia fraternity in Bonn (1847 to 1849) and the fraternity association Germania in Bonn (1843 to 1849). Bonn 1894, p. 9.
Web links
- Author entry and list of the described plant names for Dietrich Brandis at the IPNI
- Forest Research Institute Dehradun
- Curriculum vitae: Sir Dietrich L. Ch. G. Brandis - from custodian of the Bonn Botanical Gardens to general forest inspector of all Indian forests. Botanical Gardens of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn , accessed on January 26, 2016 .
- Sir Dietrich Brandis Foundation Bonn
- Entry to Brandis; Sir; Dietrich (1824–1907) in the Archives of the Royal Society , London
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brandis, Dietrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Brandis, Ludwig Christian Georg Dietrich (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German botanist and forester |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 31, 1824 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bonn |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 28, 1907 |
| Place of death | Bonn |