Henning Brandis (17 July 1916 – 16 November 2004) was a German physician and microbiologist. He was Professor of Medical Microbiology and Immunology and Director of the Institute for Medical Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Bonn from 1967 until his 1984 retirement. He was editor-in-chief of the journal Zeitschrift für Immunitätsforschung (now Immunobiology). He was a member of the Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and received the Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1976 for services to medical microbiology.
Henning Brandis was a son of supreme court justice Bernhard Brandis[1] and a grandson of the renowned German-British botanist and forestry academic and administrator Sir Dietrich Brandis, who worked with the Imperial Forestry Service in British India and who is considered the father of tropical forestry. Sir Dietrich joined the British civil service in 1856 as superintendent of the teak forests of Pegu division in eastern Burma, shortly after became head of the entire British forestry administration in Burma and later served for two decades as Inspector General of Forests of India, receiving a British knighthood in 1887. Henning Brandis' father was born and grew up in India during the British Raj. The family lived in Calcutta and in Simla during the summer. Henning Brandis and his wife founded the Sir Dietrich Brandis Foundation in 1994.
His great-grandfather was the prominent philosopher Christian August Brandis, who was tutor to the young King Otho of Greece. His great-great-grandfather Joachim Dietrich Brandis was a professor of medicine and moved to Denmark in 1810, where he became personal physician to Queen Marie of Denmark, a Danish Privy Councillor and a member of both the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. The Brandis family was originally a patrician family from Hildesheim, where several family members served as burgomasters from the 15th century.
Он изучал медицину в Университете Франкфурта и в Университете Марбурга с 1936 по 1942 год. Получив докторскую степень, он три года служил в армейской медицинской службе . В конце 1945 года он стал доцентом в исследовательской группе Шлоссбергера в Институте медицинской микробиологии и контроля инфекций в Университете Гёте во Франкфурте . Он внес большой вклад в издание книги «Экспериментальная бактериология» 1952 года . Он получил степень доктора наук, защитив диссертацию «Иммунитет к депрессиям» в 1952 году. [2]
С 1957 года он был профессором ординариусом инфекционного контроля в Гёттингенском университете . В 1967 году он стал профессором ординариусом медицинской микробиологии и иммунологии и директором Института медицинской микробиологии и иммунологии в Боннском университете . В 1974 году он был избран членом Академии наук Леопольдина . [3] В 1984 году он стал почетным профессором.
Брандис был главным редактором журнала Zeitschrift für Immunitätsforschung (ныне Immunobiology ), а также известен своим учебником Medizinische Mikrobiologie . [2] [4]