Joachim Dietrich Brandis

Joachim Dietrich Brandis (also Dietrich Joachim Friedrich Brandis) (born 18 March 1762 in Hildesheim, died 28 April 1845 in Copenhagen) was a German-Danish physician.

He was a son of the judge Christian Dietrich Brandis (1722–1800), and belonged to a prominent family from Hildesheim.

He was the father of the philosopher Christian August Brandis and the grandfather of the forestry academic and administrator in India Sir Dietrich Brandis.

[1] He studied medicine in Göttingen, earned a doctorate in 1785 and a Habilitation in Brunswick in 1791.

[2][3][4][5][1] After saving the life of the wife of the Danish statesman Christian von Bernstorff, he earned great authority and respect at the Danish royal court, and moved permanently to Copenhagen in 1810.