Heinrich Gottlieb Ludwig Reichenbach

Heinrich Gottlieb Ludwig Reichenbach (January 8, 1793 - March 17, 1879) was a German botanist and ornithologist. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... January 8 is the 8th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1793 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... March 17 is the 76th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (77th in Leap years). ... 1879 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Botany is the scientific study of plant life. ... Ornithology (from the Greek ornitha = chicken and logos = word/science) is the branch of biology concerned with the scientific study of birds. ...

He was the son of Johann Friedrich Jakob Reichenbach, the author in 1818 of the first Greek-German dictionary. He was the father of Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach, equally a botanist and an eminent orchid specialist. Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach (Leipzig 1823-1889) was an ornithologist, botanist and the foremost German orchidologist of the 19th century. ... Orchid re-directs here; for alternate uses see Orchid (disambiguation) Genera Over 800 See List of Orchidaceae genera. ...

Reichenbach was born in Leipzig. From 1810 he studied medicin and natural science at the University of Leipzig. He became an instructor in 1818. In 1820 he was appointed the director of the Dresden natural history museum and a professor at the University of Dresden, where he remained till 1862. He was later the founder of the Dresden botanical gardens and joint founder of Dresden zoo. The museum's zoological collection was almost completely destroyed by the fire in the Zwinger palace during the constitutional crisis of 1849, but Reichenbach was able to replace it within only a few years. This collection is the basis of that seen in the museum today. Map of Germany showing Leipzig Leipzig [ˈlaiptsɪç] (Polish; Sorbian/Lusatian: Lipsk) is the largest city in the federal state (Bundesland) of Saxony in Germany. ... See drugs, medication, and pharmacology for substances that are used to treat patients. ... The term natural science as the way in which different fields of study are defined is determined as much by historical convention as by the present day meaning of the words. ... The University of Leipzig is one of the oldest universities in Europe. ... Brühls Terrace and the Frauenkirche Dresden [ˈdreːsdn̩] (Sorbian/Lusatian Drježdźany), the capital city of the German federal state of Saxony, is situated in a valley on the river Elbe. ... Aerial view of the Zwinger Palace The Zwinger Palace in Dresden, Germany was designed by Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann in 1722, and became the star attraction in that citys rich cultural heritage. ...

Reichenbach was a prolific author and able botanical artist. His works included Iconographia Botanica seu Plantae criticae (1823-32, 10 vols.) and Handbuch der speciellen Ornithologie (1851-54).

He was honored by naming a plant after him : Viola reichenbachiana Jord. ex Bor. (syn. V. sylvatica (Hartm.) Fr. ex Hartm. auch V. sylvestris Lam. p.p.) (the Slender Wood Violet)

The standard botanical author abbreviation Rchb. is applied to species he described. In biology, binomial nomenclature is a standard convention used for naming species. ... In biology, a species is a kind of organism. ...

Publications

• Flora germanica excursoria (1830–32, 2 tomes)
• Flora exotica (1834–36)
• Flora germanica exsiccata (1830–45)
• Übersicht des Gewächsreichs und seiner natürlichen Entwickelungsstufen (1828)
• Handbuch des natürlichen Pflanzensystems (1837)
• Das Herbarienbuch (1841)
• Abbildung und Beschreibung der für Gartenkultur empfehlenswerten Gewächse (1821–26, with 96 plates)
• Monographia generis Aconiti (1820, with 19 plates)
• Illustratio specierum Aconiti generis (1823–27, with 72 plates)
• Iconographia botanica s. plantae criticae (1823-1832, with 1,000 plates)
• Iconographia botanica exotica (1827–30)
• Regnum animale (1834–36, with 79 plates)
• Deutschlands Fauna (1842, 2 tomes)
• Vollständigste Naturgeschichte des In- und Auslandes (1845–54, 2 volumes in 9 tomes with more than 1,000 plates)

External link

• Biography with portrait (in German) (http://www.wbs-dresden.de/projekte/275dw/geschichte/reichenbach.htm)