Johann Friedrich von Brandt was a German-Russian naturalist, who worked mostly in Russia.
Occupation
ornithologist, zoologist, botanist, naturalist
Citizenship
Kingdom of Prussia, Russian Empire
Born
May 25, 1802
Died
July 3, 1879, July 15, 1879
Overview
Johann Friedrich von Brandt (25 May 1802 – 15 July 1879) was a German-Russian naturalist, who worked mostly in Russia.
Brandt was born in Jüterbog and educated at a gymnasium in Wittenberg and the University of Berlin.
In 1831 he emigrated to Russia, and soon was appointed director of the Zoological Museum of the St Petersburg Academy of Sciences. Brandt encouraged the collection of native animals, many of which were not represented in the museum. Many specimens began to arrive from the expeditions of Severtzov, Przhevalsky, Middendorff, Schrenck and Gustav Radde.
He described several birds collected by Russian explorers off the Pacific Coast of North America, including Brandt's cormorant, red-legged kittiwake and spectacled eider.
