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 the tropical forestry. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Brandis ".

Life and work

He was born the son of a philosophy professor Christian August Brandis. After attending school in Bonn, he studied from 1843 to 1848 physics, zoology, botany and chemistry in Bonn, Copenhagen and Göttingen. He became in 1844 a member of the fraternity Fridericia Bonn. He was in 1848 a PhD from the University of Bonn and habilitated in 1849 at the same location for botany and plant chemistry. Until 1855 he worked as a lecturer and curator of the Botanical Garden of the University. In 1856 he was " Superintendent of Forests" of the Province of Pegu in Burma until 1858 then the head of the Forest Service for the whole of British Burma was. From 1862 he was adviser to the Forestry Indian central government in Calcutta, and in 1864 the Inspector General of the Indian Forestry Department in Dehra Dun. From 1879 he founded, first central Indian forest school later developed into the Imperial Forest Research Institute, which exists today as the Forest Research Institute Dehradun (FRI ).

The grave of Sir Dietrich Brandis is located at 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 climbers woody bamboos and palms indigenous or Commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire, 1906