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Eduard Karlovich Brandt ( 15 February 1839 – 17 November 1891) was a Russo-German comparative anatomist and zoologist who contributed to studies on the nervous system of insects. He served as a professor at the
Brandt's studies on the nervous system of insects in ''Horae Societatis Entomologicae Rossicae'' (1879)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Brandt, Eduard Karlovich 1891 deaths 1839 births Russian anatomists Entomologists from the Russian Empire S.M. Kirov Military Medical Academy faculty
Eduard Karlovich Brandt ( 15 February 1839 – 17 November 1891) was a Russo-German comparative anatomist and zoologist who contributed to studies on the nervous system of insects. He served as a professor at the Imperial Military Medical Academy
The S. M. Kirov Military Medical Academy (russian: Военно-медицинская академия имени С. М. Кирова) is a higher education institution of military medicine in Saint Petersburg and the Russian Federation. Senior ...
in St. Petersburg
Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...
.
Life and work
Brandt was educated at St. Petersburg where he studied at the Saint Peter's School after which he studied medicine, receiving a diploma in 1862. He then studied zoology, training under his uncle Fedor Fedorovich Brandt (German formJohann Friedrich von Brandt
Johann Friedrich von Brandt (25 May 1802 – 15 July 1879) was a German-Russian natural history, naturalist, who worked mostly in Russia.
Brandt was born in Jüterbog and educated at a Gymnasium (school), gymnasium in Wittenberg and the Humboldt ...
), particularly examining the insects and received a master's degree in 1876. In 1863 he became an assistant in comparative anatomy at the Imperial Military Medical Academy. He made field trips in Paris with Émile Blanchard
Charles Émile Blanchard (6 March 1819 – 11 February 1900) was a French zoologist and entomologist.
Career
Blanchard was born in Paris. His father was an artist and naturalist and Émile began natural history very early in life. When he w ...
and Henri Milne-Edwards
Henri Milne-Edwards (23 October 1800 – 29 July 1885) was an eminent French zoologist.
Biography
Henri Milne-Edwards was the 27th child of William Edwards, an English planter and colonel of the militia in Jamaica and Elisabeth Vaux, a Frenchw ...
in 1866 and met Richard Owen
Sir Richard Owen (20 July 1804 – 18 December 1892) was an English biologist, comparative anatomist and paleontologist. Owen is generally considered to have been an outstanding naturalist with a remarkable gift for interpreting fossils.
Owe ...
in London. He became a professor of zoology in 1878 and was elected to the Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
The German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (german: Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften), short Leopoldina, is the national academy of Germany, and is located in Halle (Saale). Founded ...
in 1881. His major work was on the nervous system of insects for which he received an award from the French Academy of Sciences. Between 1880 and 1889 he presided over the Russian Entomological Society
The Russian Entomological Society is a Russian scientific society devoted to entomology.
The Society was founded in 1859 in St. Petersburg by Karl Ernst von Baer, Johann Friedrich von Brandt who was then the director of the Zoological Museum of th ...
. References
External links
Brandt's studies on the nervous system of insects in ''Horae Societatis Entomologicae Rossicae'' (1879)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Brandt, Eduard Karlovich 1891 deaths 1839 births Russian anatomists Entomologists from the Russian Empire S.M. Kirov Military Medical Academy faculty