Henning Brandis

Henning Brandis (born 17 July 1916 in Elberfeld, died 16 November 2004 in Bonn) was a German physician and microbiologist. He was Professor of Medical Microbiology and Immunology and Director of the Institute for Medical Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Bonn from 1967 until his 1984 retirement. He was editor-in-chief of the journal Zeitschrift für Immunitätsforschung (now Immunobiology). He was a member of the Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and received the Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1976 for services to medical microbiology.

Professor Dr.

Henning Brandis
Born(1916-07-17)17 July 1916
Elberfeld
Died16 November 2004(2004-11-16) (aged 88)
Bonn
NationalityGerman
Scientific career
FieldsMedical microbiology
Institutions

Background

Henning Brandis was a son of supreme court justice Bernhard Brandis[1] and a grandson of the renowned German-British botanist and forestry academic and administrator Sir Dietrich Brandis, who worked with the Imperial Forestry Service in British India and who is considered the father of tropical forestry. Sir Dietrich joined the British civil service in 1856 as superintendent of the teak forests of Pegu division in eastern Burma, shortly after became head of the entire British forestry administration in Burma and later served for two decades as Inspector General of Forests of India, receiving a British knighthood in 1887. Henning Brandis' father was born and grew up in India during the British Raj. The family lived in Calcutta and in Simla during the summer. Henning Brandis and his wife founded the Sir Dietrich Brandis Foundation in 1994.

His great-grandfather was the prominent philosopher Christian August Brandis, who was tutor to the young King Otho of Greece. His great-great-grandfather Joachim Dietrich Brandis was a professor of medicine and moved to Denmark in 1810, where he became personal physician to Queen Marie of Denmark, a Danish Privy Councillor and a member of both the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. The Brandis family was originally a patrician family from Hildesheim, where several family members served as burgomasters from the 15th century.

Career

He studied medicine at the University of Frankfurt and at the University of Marburg from 1936 to 1942. After earning a doctoral degree, he served in the Army Medical Service for three years. In late 1945 he became an assistant professor in Schlossberger's research group at the Institute for Medical Microbiology and Infection Control at the Goethe University Frankfurt. He was a major contributor to the 1952 edition of the book Experimental Bacteriology. He earned his Habilitation with the dissertation Über die Promunität (Depressionsimmunität) in 1952.[2]

From 1957 he was Professor Ordinarius of Infection Control at the University of Göttingen. In 1967 he became Professor Ordinarius of Medical Microbiology and Immunology and Director of the Institute for Medical Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Bonn. He was elected as a member of the Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 1974.[3] He became Professor Emeritus in 1984.

Brandis was editor-in-chief of the journal Zeitschrift für Immunitätsforschung (now Immunobiology) and is also known for his textbook Medizinische Mikrobiologie.[2][4]

Honours

References
  1. "Brandis, Henning". Wer ist wer?. 26. Schmidt Rönhild. 1987. p. 148.
  2. "Nachruf auf Professor Dr. med. Henning Brandis". University of Bonn.
  3. "Henning Brandis". Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.
  4. Bettina, Bartz, ed. (2003). "Brandis, Henning". Kürschners Deutscher Gelehrten-Kalender. 2 (19 ed.). Saur. p. 350.
  5. "Ferdinand Cohn-Medaille". German Society for Hygiene and Microbiology. Archived from the original on 2016-08-01.
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