Bernhard Friedrich Brandis (born 15 January 1875 in

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, died 14/15 January 1935 in

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) was a German supreme court justice. As of 1914, he was a judge on a regional court in

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. He was appointed as a judge (''Reichsgerichtsrat'') on the Imperial Court of Justice in 1929 and died in office in 1935. His former law clerk Ernst Eduard Hirsch described him as "brought up to be a gentleman" and highly erudite. He grew up in

, and was a son of the botanist and forestry administrator Sir Dietrich Brandis, the Inspector General of Forests of India, and Lady Katharina Brandis, known as Kate. His father had joined the British civil service in India in 1856. The family lived in

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and in

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during the summer. Bernhard Brandis was the father of the noted microbiologist

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. He should not be confused with his uncle, the physician Bernhard Brandis (1826–1911), or with Ernst Brandis, of no relation, who was a judge on the Imperial Court of Justice from 1937.

Publications

* ''Die Graphologie im Dienste des Kaufmanns: Eine Einführung in die Grundlehren der Handschriften-Deutungskunde und ihre Anwendung im kaufmännischen Betrieb sowie praktische, allgemeinverständliche Anleitung, um aus der Handschrift Charakter, Gemütsstimmung, Verstellung und Fälschung der Handschrift bestimmen zu können'', L. Huberti, 1905, 79 pages

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Brandis, Bernhard 20th-century German judges 1875 births 1935 deaths Scholars from Dehradun Expatriates from Germany in British India