Dimitrie Brândză (; October 22, 1846–August 15, 1895) was a

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. He founded the Botanical Garden of Bucharest, which is now named in his honor. Brândză was born in Viișoara,

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. After studying at the Academia Mihăileană in

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, he earned a Ph.D. from the

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in 1869. He was a professor at the

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and the

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. In 1879 he was elected titular member of the Romanian Academy. He died in

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and was buried at

Bellu Cemetery Șerban Vodă Cemetery (commonly known as Bellu Cemetery) is the largest and most famous cemetery in Bucharest, Romania. It is located on a plot of land donated to the local administration by Baron Barbu Bellu. It has been in use since 1858. T ...

, in

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Taxa named in honour

There are number of plants with

specific name Specific name may refer to: * in Database management systems, a system-assigned name that is unique within a particular database In taxonomy, either of these two meanings, each with its own set of rules: * Specific name (botany), the two-part (bino ...

''brandzae''. Including; '' Iris brandzae'', '' Agropyron brandzae'' Pantu & Solacolu. and '' Verbascum glabratum'' subsp. brandzae. Also a

mussel Mussel () is the common name used for members of several families of bivalve molluscs, from saltwater and Freshwater bivalve, freshwater habitats. These groups have in common a shell whose outline is elongated and asymmetrical compared with other ...

in the

Unionidae The Unionidae are a Family (biology), family of freshwater mussels, the largest in the order Unionida, the bivalve molluscs sometimes known as river mussels, or simply as unionids. The range of distribution for this family is world-wide. It is a ...

family is named, ''Potomida brandzae'' (Sabba S. Ștefănescu, 1896).

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"Short biography"
1846 births 1895 deaths People from Botoșani County University of Paris alumni Romanian expatriates in France Romanian botanists Botanists active in Europe Romanian biologists brând Academic staff of the University of Bucharest Academic staff of Alexandru Ioan Cuza University Burials at Bellu Cemetery {{Romania-botanist-stub