Brandis family

Numerous family members have been noted as lawyers, physicians and academics.

Joachim Dietrich Brandis (1762–1846) was a professor of medicine, and later became personal physician to Queen Marie of Denmark and Norway, a Danish Privy Councillor and a member of both the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

He was the father of the prominent philosopher Christian August Brandis (1790–1867), who was tutor to the young King Otho of Greece and a professor of philosophy at the University of Bonn.

[1][2] On 4 March 1769 in Vienna the family received coat of arms and was admitted to the nobility of the Holy Roman Empire by Joseph II.

On 10 June 1854 they received the hereditary title of Freiherr in the Kingdom of Hanover.