Karl Brandt (zoologist)
Karl Brandt ( * May 23, 1854 in Magdeburg, † January 7, 1931 in Kiel ) was a German zoologist and marine biologist.
Life
Karl Brandt was the son of a pharmacist Albert Brandt Beautiful (Elbe ). He studied science at the Friedrich- Wilhelms- University of Berlin and in 1877 phil at the Frederick University Hall Dr.. doctorate. He then worked as an assistant to Emil Du Bois- Reymond at the Physiological Institute of the Friedrich -Wilhelms- University, before he moved to the Naples Zoological Station in 1882.
In 1885 he completed his habilitation at the Albertus University of Königsberg at Carl Chun. Charged with the representation of Karl August Möbius Since April 1887, he followed this on April 11, 1888 the Department of Zoology at the Christian- Albrechts- University of Kiel. At the same time he was appointed Director of the Zoological Institute and Museum. Already in 1887 he was elected a member of the Scholars Academy Leopoldina. 1899/1900 he held the post of rector of the CAU. His rectorial address dealt with the metabolism in the sea. In addition, he was from 1887 to 1913 lecturer at the Naval Academy and School (Kiel).
In 1888 he participated in the plankton expedition of Alexander -von- Humboldt Foundation under the direction of Victor Hensen part. He was able to demonstrate the importance of dissolved nitrogen and phosphorus compounds to the marine life. In 1898 he accompanied Albert I of Monaco on the yacht Princesse Alice to Spitsbergen. In 1922 he became Professor Emeritus. According to Hensen's death, he took over in 1924 the presidency of the Prussian Commission for the Investigation of German seas.
Karl Brandt was married and the father of four sons and two daughters.
Writings (selection )
- With Johannes Reibisch: The material budget in the oceans. Stuttgart 1933 ( = Handbook of marine fisheries of Northern Europe, Volume 1, Issue 6 )
- With Carl Apstein (ed.): Nordic plankton, 8 vols, Kiel and Leipzig from 1901 to 1942.