Heinrich Wilhelm Reichardt

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Heinrich Wilhelm Reichardt in 1876

Heinrich Wilhelm Reichardt (born April 16, 1835 in Iglau ; † August 2, 1885 in Mödling ) was an Austrian botanist .

Life

Reichardt was the son of a wealthy German businessman . His enthusiasm for botany was aroused during his time at the Iglau grammar school. At the end of his school days in 1854 the Zoological-Botanical Society in Vienna accepted his publication Contribution to the Flora of Northern Bohemia for publication. In 1854 or 1855 he passed the school leaving examination and then went to study medicine at the University of Vienna . Until 1859, in addition to his medical studies, he also devoted himself to studying botany under Franz Unger and Eduard Fenzl .

Reichardt's promotion to Dr. med. took place in 1860 at the University of Vienna. In the meantime, Reichardt had already positioned himself as a botanist. In his academic years in 1856 the writing about the central vascular bundle system of some umbellifers was included in the meeting reports of the Vienna Academy , in 1857 the writing about hypocotylic adventitious buds and root shoots in herbaceous dicotyledons in the reports of the Zoological-Botanical Society , and in 1859 the writing about the vascular bundle distribution Stipes of the ferns in the memoranda of the Vienna Academy as well as printed again in 1860 by the Zoological-Botanical Society of Flora of the Styrian Bad Neuhaus bei Cilli . On this basis he could to Fenzls operate in 1860 for the Department of Botany habilitation and became a lecturer as well as a research assistant at the Department of Botany at the Botanical Garden of the University of Vienna appointed. He held the position of assistant until 1870. In 1873 he was finally appointed associate professor at the university and in this context he was given the management of a laboratory that had been donated to the university. He was also appointed examination commissioner for secondary schools.

Reichardt was also able to find acceptance in the Imperial and Royal Botanical Court Cabinet . Here he was active in parallel to his university activities and his diverse involvement in scientific associations, societies and editorial offices. From 1860 he was initially a volunteer there, then got an assistant position in 1863 and, after the death of the botanist Theodor Kotschy in 1866, became a curator . In 1867 he was awarded the title of curator . In 1871 he was promoted to first curator. He participated in the scientific evaluation of the Novara expedition and received the emperor's highest recognition for it. After Fenzl's resignation in 1878, he became the provisional director of the Botanical Court Cabinet and was responsible for the integration and reorganization of the collection in the new Natural History Museum in Vienna until his death .

Reichardt gave his herbarium and his library partly to the university and partly to the royal collection as early as 1874 . After his mother died in 1879, who had raised him on her own and who accompanied him until then, he fell into depression . He committed suicide before the new museum opened .

Reichardt worked on the General German Biography .

Honors

Reichardt was a member of various societies and academies at home and abroad. For example, he was since January 1st, 1869 ( matriculation no. 2099 ) with the nickname Joh. Hedwig III. Member of the Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the German Botanical Society . He was made an honorary member of the Natural Science Association at the University of Vienna and also received the Imperial Austrian Franz Joseph Order in 1875 as well as the Imperial Brazilian Order of the Rose for his services to the study of flora in Brazil.

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Heinrich Wilhelm Reichardt  - Sources and full texts
 Wikispecies: Heinrich Wilhelm Reichardt  - Species Directory

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Member entry of Heinrich Wilhelm Reichardt at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on August 29, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Reichardt, Heinrich Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian botanist
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1835
PLACE OF BIRTH Iglau
DATE OF DEATH August 2, 1885
Place of death Mödling