Background
Theodor von Brand is a descendant of the German noble family von Brand. His mother Diana von Brandt was a née Freiin von Hirsch from a Jewish German noble family.
Theodor von Brand is a descendant of the German noble family von Brand. His mother Diana von Brandt was a née Freiin von Hirsch from a Jewish German noble family.
Johns Hopkins University.
He was an assistant of Ernst Weinland at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and went to the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine in 1929. In 1935 he immigrated into the United States of America. He was among the first scientists making biochemical experiments with parasites at the Johns Hopkins University. 1947 he became leader of a department at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.
He is an initial researcher of the biochemistry and metabolism of parasites of the groups of helminths and protozoa.
In 1978 he was honoured with the Robert Koch Meda
Because of his views opposing the National-Socialist-Party he had to leave the institute in 1933 and went to Copenhagen.
