Brandt, Alexander Fedorovich

Alexander Brandt was born in St. Petersburg on February 16, 1844, he studied at the Larinsky gymnasium from 1854 to 1861, and then at the Medical-Surgical Academy , where he graduated from the course in 1866 with a gold medal and the Bush Prize .

During his student years he worked especially in the physiological laboratory of Sechenov, at the zoological and comparative anatomical study of his father, and in particular in the histology of F. V. Ovsyannikov .

During repeated trips abroad (1862, 1867, 1868, 1869, 1870) he attended lectures by professors of Haeckel , Gegenbaura , worked in the laboratory of R. Leuckart and practically worked at sea (in Trieste and Naples).

In 1867, Brandt was awarded the degree of doctor of medicine, in 1870 - master's degree, and in 1876 - doctor of zoology.

From January 1, 1867 to January 1, 1870 was left at the Medical-Surgical Academy in the rank of junior resident, for improvement in the zoological sciences.

From 1871 to 1880, he was the curator of the Zoological Museum of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, assistant professor at St. Petersburg University and in recent years also a teacher of natural history at the Women's Patriotic Institute.

In 1880, he was elected an ordinary professor at the Kharkov Veterinary Institute , and in 1887 he was approved as an ordinary professor at Kharkov University. Founder (1896) and first director of the Kharkov Zoo.

• “Physiolog. Beobachtungen am Herzen d. Flusskrebses ”(“ Bull. De l'Akad. De St. Petersb. ”, Vol. VIII, 1865);
• “Experiments on the Heart of Crayfish” (Medits. Vestn., 1866, No. 7 and 8);
• "Heart and guts" ("Medic. Vestn.", № 51 and 52);
• "Heart, guts and muscles", dissertation for the degree of doctor of medicine, SPb., 1867;
• "On the ratio of the amount of brain to body weight in various animals" ("Proceedings of the First Congress of the Russian. Naturalist.", 1868);
• “Beiträge zur Entwickelungsgeschichte d. Libelluliden und Hemipteren "(" Mém. De l'Acad. De St.-Petersb. ", Vol. XIII, No. 1, 1869);
• Morphological study of the Cornerot "(" Rhizostoma Cuvieri Lam "), dissert. the degree of Master of Zoology, St. Petersburg., 1870;
• "Anatomical and histological studies of Sipunculus nudus" ("Proceedings of the II Congress of Russian Natural Sciences." 1870);
• "Über fossile Medusen" ("Mem. De l'Acad. De St-Petersb.", XVI, No. 11);
• "Heber activen Formveränderungen d. Kernkörperchens ”(“ Arch. Für mikroskop. Anat ”, vol. X, 1874);
• “Bemerkung über die Kerne d. rothen Blutkörperchen ”(ibid., vol. XIII, 1876);
• "Über die Eifurchung, d. Ascaris nigrovenosa "(" Zeitschr. Für wissensch. Zoolog. ", XXVII, 1877);
• “Fragment. Bemerk, über das Ovarium des Frosches ”(ibid., Vol. XXVIII, 1877);
• “Bemerkungen über die Eifurchung und die Betheiligung des Keimbläschens an derselben” (ibid., Vol. XXVIII, 1877); "Comparative studies on egg tubes and insect eggs" ("Izvestia Imp. Obshch. Like. Natural., Anthropol. And ethnography", Moscow, 1876);
• “Commentare zur Bläschentheorie des Eies” (“Arch. F. Mikroskop. Anatomie”, Vol. XVII, 1880);
• “Concerning mesoderm phagocytes” (“Russian Medicine”, 1884, No. 3);
• "Animal Individual" ("Bulletin of Europe", 1877, May);
• “The Atlas of the Natural History of Arendt, altered by A. B.”, St. Petersburg. 1880, 3rd ed .;
• "A short course of comparative anatomy of vertebrates" (Kharkiv, 1877).

• Brandt E. K. Brandt, Alexander Fedorovich // Encyclopedic Dictionary of Brockhaus and Efron : in 86 tons (82 tons and 4 extras). - SPb. , 1890-1907.