Rudolph Brandes

Rudolph Brandes (18 October 1795 – 3 December 1842) was a German apothecary and chemist who served as the founding editor of the journal Archiv des Pharmazie from 1822.

Brandes was born in Salzuflen, the son of pharmacist Johann Gottlieb (1751–1816) and Friederike née Nolte.

After studies at Osnabrück and Erfurt and he went to the University of Halle where he received a doctorate in 1817 for a dissertation titled Dissertatio de Strontiane mineralogico-chemica guided by Dr Dobereiner from Jena.

He used his analytical chemistry skills to purify and characterize a number of chemical compounds including delphinine (1819), atropine (1822), hyoscyamine, and acrolein (1838).

In 1820 he founded the group Apothekerverein im nördlichen Teutschland along with August Peter Julius Du Mênil, Ernst Witting, and Friedrich Wilhelm Beissenhirtz, which started publishing the Archiv der Pharmazie, a publication that continues to be published today.