13 Facts About Henning Brandis

Henning Brandis was a German physician and microbiologist.

Henning Brandis 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.

Henning Brandis was editor-in-chief of the journal Zeitschrift fur Immunitatsforschung.

Henning Brandis 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 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.

Henning Brandis' father was born and grew up in India during the British Raj.

Henning Brandis's 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.

Henning Brandis studied medicine at the University of Frankfurt and at the University of Marburg from 1936 to 1942.

Henning Brandis was a major contributor to the 1952 edition of the book Experimental Bacteriology.

Henning Brandis earned his Habilitation with the dissertation Uber die Promunitat in 1952.

Henning Brandis was elected as a member of the Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 1974.

Henning Brandis was editor-in-chief of the journal Zeitschrift fur Immunitatsforschung and is known for his textbook Medizinische Mikrobiologie.