Johann Jacob Reichard

Johann Jacob Reichard (born August 7, 1743 in Frankfurt am Main ; † January 21, 1782 there ) was a German doctor and botanist. Its official botanical author's abbreviation is " Reichard ".

Life

Reichard, the elder of a pair of twins, whose father was citizen captain and fairer in Frankfurt, studied medicine, natural sciences and philosophy in Göttingen and especially botany with Johann Andreas Murray from 1764 and received his doctorate in 1768. He was a resident doctor in Frankfurt and, from 1773, a doctor at the Senckenberg Foundation and oversaw its library and botanical garden . From 1779 he was a doctor at the newly opened Bürgerhospital in Frankfurt. He also gave lectures on botany and materia medica for doctors and pharmacists (combined with excursions). Most recently he was disabled by tuberculosis ; he died at the age of 38.

He published a two-volume flora from his home in Frankfurt, which, in addition to vascular plants, also dealt with cryptogams and fungi. Reichard also published a list of plants in the Senckenberg Botanical Garden. He bequeathed 4,000 guilders to the Senckenberg Foundation, with which botanical works were to be purchased.

In 1780 he founded the medical weekly paper for doctors, surgeons and pharmacists .

Honors

In 1775 he became a member of the Leopoldina . The composites genus Reichardia ROTH 1787 was named in his honor.

Fonts

Flora Moeno-Francofurtana , 2 volumes, 1772 Google Books to 1778 Google Books

literature

Martin Möbius: Reichard, Johann Jacob . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 53, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1907, p. 267 f.

Web links

Author entry and list of the plant names described for Johann Jacob Reichard at the IPNI (excluding mosses, algae and fungi)

Individual evidence

↑ She appeared shortly before his death. Reichard said goodbye with the words Farewell and remain in favor of the actor who leaves the stage .
^ Member entry by Johann Jacob Reichard at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on July 22, 2017.
↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names - Extended Edition. Part I and II. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin , Freie Universität Berlin , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5 doi: 10.3372 / epolist2018 .

personal data
SURNAME	Reichard, Johann Jacob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German doctor and botanist
DATE OF BIRTH	August 7, 1743
PLACE OF BIRTH	Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH	January 21, 1782
Place of death	Frankfurt am Main

[1] She appeared shortly before his death. Reichard said goodbye with the words Farewell and remain in favor of the actor who leaves the stage .

[2] Member entry by Johann Jacob Reichard at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on July 22, 2017.

[Burkhardt_2018-3] Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names - Extended Edition. Part I and II. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin , Freie Universität Berlin , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5 doi: 10.3372 / epolist2018 .