| Authorised form of name | Brandis; Sir; Dietrich (1824 - 1907) |
| Dates | 1824 - 1907 |
| Place of birth | Bonn, Germany |
| Date of birth | 31 March 1824 |
| Place of death | Bonn, Germany |
| Date of death | 29/05/1907 |
| DatesAndPlaces | Burial:
Bonn, Germany |
| Research field | Botany |
| Activity | Education:
Bonn; Athens; Copenhagen. PhD (1848, Bonn)
Career:
In charge of teak forests of Burma and saved them from destruction (1856-1862); Inspector General of Forests to the Government of India (1864); retired (1883)
Honours:
CIE 1878; KCIE 1887
Memberships:
FLS
|
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 03/06/1875 |
| Relationships | Eldest son of Christian August Brandis, Professor of Philosophy, and his wife Caroline Hausmann.
Married: 1) (1854) Rachel daughter of Rev Joshua Marshman (she died 1863); 2) (1867) Katharine, daughter of Dr Rudolph Hasse of Bonn |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc Series B 1908 vol 80 pp iii-vi signed by W S
References:
R W Home, 'The Royal Society and the Empire: the colonial and Commonwealth Fellowship. Part 2. After 1847' in NR 2003 vol 57 pp 47-84 |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/62339907 |
| Code | NA5501 |
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1875/18 | Brandis, Sir Dietrich: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| NLB/35/478 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Messrs Harrison & Sons | 4 June 1907 |
| NLB/10/1051 | Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons | 30 March 1895 |
| NLB/10/216 | Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons | 23 October 1894 |
| NLB/10/1028 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir Dietrich Brandis, Fellow of the Royal Society, 12 Pen-y-wern Road, Earl's Court, S.W. | 27 March 1895 |
| NLB/20/31 | Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons | 18 January 1900 |
| NLB/16/873 | Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons | 23 June 1898 |
| NLB/18/200 | Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons | 6 February 1899 |
| NLB/20/223 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Messrs Harrison & Sons | 28 February 1900 |
| NLB/16/353 | Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons | 22 March 1898 |
| NLB/17/142 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir Dietrich Brandis, Fellow of the Royal Society | 26 July 1898 |
| NLB/19/124 | Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons | 26 June 1899 |
| NLB/20/763 | Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons | 3 July 1900 |
| NLB/18/659 | Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons | 18 April 1899 |
| NLB/30/111 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir Dietrich Brandis, Fellow of the Royal Society | 31 January 1905 |
| NLB/32/253 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir Dietrich Brandis, Fellow of the Royal Society | 5 February 1906 |
| NLB/31/753 | Copy letter from Robert Frederick William Harrison, to Sir Dietrich Brandis, Fellow of the Royal Society, Capel House, Kew Green, Surrey | 8 November 1905 |
| NLB/33/350 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir Dietrich Brandis, Fellow of the Royal Society | 10 August 1906 |
| NLB/35/599 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor William Schlich, Fellow of the Royal Society | 18 June 1907 |
| NLB/3/916 | List of corrections in the addresses of Royal Society Fellows | 8 November 1889 |
| MC/10/275 | Letter from D [Dietrich] Brandis, Simla, to Walter White, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, Burlington House, London | 19 July 1875 |
| MC/10 | Volume 10 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | July 1873-1876 |
| MC/17 | Volume 17 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1897-1899 |