BRANDIS, CHRISTIAN AUGUST Ger man philologist and historian of philosophy, was born at Hildes heim, and graduated at Copenhagen. In 1816 he was secretary to the Prussian embassy at Rome, and later he assisted I. Bekker in his edition of Aristotle. In 1821 he became professor of philosophy at Bonn, and in 1823 published his Aristotelius et Theophrasti Metaphysica. His most important work is the Handbuch der Geschichte der griet.liistji-rostC. Philos. (1835-66; republished in a smaller and more systematic form, Gesch. d. Entzvickelungen d. griech. Philos. 1862-66). Brandis died on July 21, 1867.
See Trendelenburg, Zur Erinnerung an C.A.B. (1868) .