Heinrich August Ottokar Reichard

Heinrich August Ottokar Reichard (1751-1828) was a large German traveller, author of the Guides Reichard , one of the first guides of voyage.

Born with Gotha, it was made known by some poetries and some plays. He became director of the ducal theater, founded the scientific Gazette of Gotha and several other collections.

He visited carefully the Germany, the Suisse, the Italy, the France: instead of publishing the account of its peregrinations, it rédiga in German a guide of very complete voyage covering all the Europe, published with Leipzig in 1784.

It was named at the end of its life director of the administration of the war of Saxony-Gotha, then to advise close friend.

The Guide Reichard

The Guide which Reichard published is one of the first examples of the guides of modern voyage, and constitutes a rupture compared to the tradition of the accounts of voyages which were published hitherto. They will be a great success during all first half of the 19th century through all Europe.

In 1793, the guide is translated into French and is published in two volumes with Weimar, and will be republished in French and German until 1861 (by Herbig with Berlin).

It will inspire the guide of Engelmann, in German, published at Wilmans with Francfort-sur-le-Main, and itself translated into French in 1827 and 1835.

In France, a summary of the Reichard Guide appears since 1803, and of the altered editions are published by Hyacinthe Langlois as from 1806. Perrin, as from 1834, then Didier, and elder Bastin as from 1836 continue these publication. With their continuation, Jean-Marie-Vincent Audin, writing under the pseudonym of J. - B. Richard, author of guides since 1823, publishes in 1828-29 a traditional Guide of the traveller in Europe very inspired of Reichard, like will be several of its guides of various countries of Europe, in particular its guide of Germany about 1830 to which it gives even the name of author of Reichard.

the England is not remains about it, and works it of Reichard is translated since French into English: it published under the name of the author of 1816 to 1841 by the London editor Samuel Leigh in three different titles devoted each one to a country or a group of country of Europe. The attested last edition is of 1841.

In Italy appears with Milan in 1819 a summary like that of 1803 in Paris, in Italian, by Francesco Gandini.

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