Heinrich Gottlieb Ludwig Reichenbach

See also: Reichenbach

Heinrich Gottlieb Ludwig Reichenbach is a Botaniste and a German zoologist , born the January 8th 1793 with Leipzig and dead the March 17th 1879 with Dresden.

His/her father is Johann Friedrich Jakob Reichenbach, vice-chancellor associated with Thomasschule of Leipzig, author in 1818 of the first dictionary gréco-German. His/her son, Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach (1823-1889), is also a botanist, specialist in the Orchidée S.

He studies the Médecine and the Natural science at the university of Leipzig starting from 1810. He obtains there a title of doctore in Philosophie in 1815 and of medicine in 1817. It is entitled to teach in 1818 and becomes extraordinary professor, then in 1820, full professor of the pulpit of natural history to the Academy of medicine and surgery of Dresden. He occupies this station until the suppression of the institution in 1862.

Parallel to these functions, it directs the zoological museum of Zwinger. Moreover, it founds the Botanical garden of Dresden which it directs until its death.

It is made known for its work on the flora and the German fauna which it classifies according to a natural system. It founds the learned society “Flora” in 1843, intended to promote the scientific research in botany and horticulture.

It chairs “Isis”, celebrates it company of natural history of Dresden, 1836 with 1866. It also founds, in 1834, the “protective company of the animals”. These two companies exist still nowadays.

It often illustrates itself its works. He works enormously and leaves with his death more than 6.000 drawings, the majority realized with his hand.

List partial of the publications

Flora germanica excursoria (1830-1832, 2 volumes).
Flora exotica (1834-1836).
Flora germanica exsiccata (1830-1845).
Übersicht of Gewächsreichs und seiner natürlichen Entwickelungsstufen (1828).
Handbuch of the natürlichen Pflanzensystems (1837).
Das Herbarienbuch (1841).
Abbildung und Beschreibung DER für Gartenkultur empfehlenswerten Gewächse (1821-1826, with 96 boards).
Monographia generis Aconiti (1820, with 19 boards).
Illustratio specierum Aconiti generis (1823-1827, with 72 boards).
Iconographia botanica S. plantae criticae (1823-1832, with 1.000 boards).
Iconographia botanica exotica (1827-1830).
Regnum animal (1834-1836, with 79 boards).
Deutschlands Fauna (1842, 2 volumes).
Praktische Naturgeschichte der Vogel (1845).
Vollständigste Naturgeschichte of In und Auslandes (1845-54, 9 volumes and more than 1.000 boards).
Avium Systema Naturale, das Naturliche System der Vogel (1849).
Handbuch DER speciellen Ornithology (1851-1854).

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