Ludwig Reichenbach

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Heinrich Gottlieb Ludwig Reichenbach
ornithologist
Author abbrev. (botany)Rchb.
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Heinrich Gottlieb Ludwig Reichenbach (8 January 1793 – 17 March 1879) was a German

ornithologist and illustrator. It was he who first requested Leopold Blaschka to make a set of glass marine invertebrate models for scientific education and museum showcasing, the successful commission giving rise to the creation of the Blaschkas' Glass sea creatures and, subsequently and indirectly, the more famous Glass Flowers
.

Early life

Born in

University of Leipzig in 1810 and, eight years later in 1818, he the now Professor became an instructor before, in 1820, he was appointed the director of the Dresden natural history museum and a professor at the Surgical-Medical Academy in Dresden, where he remained for many years. Together with Carl Friedrich Heinrich Schubert he started in 1822 to edit and distribute his first exsiccata work Lichenes exsiccati collecti atque descripti auctoribus L. Reichenbach et C. Schubert. Die Flechten in getrockneten Exemplaren, gesammelt und beschrieben von L. Reichenbach und C. Schubert.[1] Later on he published several other exsiccatae, an example being Flora Germanica exsiccata sive Herbarium normale plantarum selectarum criticarumve, in Germania propria vel in adjacente Borussia, Austria et Hungaria, Tyroli, Helvetia Belgiaque nascentim, concinnatum editumque a Societate Florae Germanicae curante.[2]

Glass sea creatures

Main article: Glass sea creatures
Blaschka model of sea anemones

Director of the natural history museum in

Lampworker, Leopold Blaschka, at an exhibition hosted by Prince Camille de Rohan;"[4][6] and it was the Prince who first introduced Reichenbach to Leopold Blaschka.[7][8]

Blaschka model of jellyfish

Enchanted by the botanical models and positive that Leopold held the key to ending his own showcasing issue, in 1863

Harvard Professor George Lincoln Goodale[16] - Goodale getting the idea for the creation of the Glass Flowers from Harvard's own collection of Glass sea creatures.[5]

Sadly, however, the original six glass sea anemones purchased by Ludwig Reichenbach in 1863 as well as the rest of that first collection was destroyed in the

Bombing of Dresden in World War II.[10]

Later career

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. 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).

Honors

He was honoured by having several plants and animals named after him including

author abbreviation Rchb. when citing a botanical name.[17] Finally, he was also the father of Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach, equally a botanist and an eminent orchid
specialist.

Death

Memorial to Ludwig Reichenbach at the Trinitatisfriedhof in Dresden

Reichenbach died in 1879 and was interred in the Trinity Cemetery in Dresden Johannstadt. The tomb, however, was cleared after abandoning the right to use. However, the cemetery administration had not awarded the grave site, so that at the initiative of the Senckenberg Natural History Collections in Dresden, a stele was erected, which was unveiled on September 11, 2011.

Publications

  • Lepidoptera Jenaische Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung (1817)
  • Reichenbach, Heinrich Gottlieb Ludwig (1828). Conspectus regni vegetabilis per gradus naturales evoluti (in Latin). Leipzig: Carolum Cnobloch.
  • Flora germanica excursoria (1830–32, 2 tomes)
  • Flora exotica (1834–36)
  • Flora germanica exsiccata (1830–45); Exsiccata
  • 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)

See also

References

  1. ^ "Lichenes exsiccati collecti atque descripti auctoribus L. Reichenbach et C. Schubert. Die Flechten in getrockneten Exemplaren, gesammelt und beschrieben von L. Reichenbach und C. Schubert: IndExs ExsiccataID=419365763". IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae. Botanische Staatssammlung München. Retrieved 14 April 2024.
  2. ^ Triebel, D. & Scholz, P. 2001–2024 IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae. – Botanische Staatssammlung München: http://indexs.botanischestaatssammlung.de. – München, Germany.
  3. ^ "Blaschka Invertebrate Models".
  4. ^ a b "The Blaschka Archive - Corning Museum of Glass".
  5. ^ a b Harvard University Herbaria and Botany Libraries
  6. ^ a b "Leopold + Rudolf Blaschka {...} The Glass Aquarium {...}". Design Museum (designmuseum.org). Retrieved 2015-06-10.
  7. ^ "All About Glass - Corning Museum of Glass".
  8. ^ a b "A Tale of Two Glassworkers and Their Marine Marvels - Science Friday".
  9. ^ "Förderverein "Naturwissenschaftliche Glaskunst Blaschka-Haus e. V". (The Promotional Association "Scientific Glass Art – Blaschka-Haus e. V.")". Urania-dresden.de. Archived from the original on 2014-11-29. Retrieved 2015-06-10. Short title: "Blaschka – English version". Translation by Peter Silbernagl. Lead sentence: "In September 2000, an association was founded in Dresden-Hosterwitz with the aim to establish a museum-type memorial for the work of Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka and to treasure the memory of those two glass-artists." Earliest English-language title: The Association "Naturwissenschaftliche Glaskunst – Blaschka-Haus e.V.". Johanna Dühning, Chairman of the Association; translation by Benjamin Pentzold (archived 2002-09-10).
  10. ^ a b Museum of Natural History Berlin, Historical collection of pictures and writings - Katalog über Blaschka's Modelle, L. Blaschka, Dresden, 1885
  11. ^ "Sea creatures of the deep - the Blaschka Glass models".
  12. ^ "Exhibitions - Corning Museum of Glass".
  13. ^ "Förderverein "Naturwissenschaftliche Glaskunst Blaschka-Haus e. V". (The Promotional Association "Scientific Glass Art – Blaschka-Haus e. V.")". Urania-dresden.de. Archived from the original on 2014-11-29. Retrieved 2015-06-10.
      Short title: "Blaschka – English version". Translation by Peter Silbernagl. Lead sentence: "In September 2000, an association was founded in Dresden-Hosterwitz with the aim of establishing a museum-type memorial for the work of Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka and to treasure the memory of those two glass-artists."
      Earliest English-language title: The Association "Naturwissenschaftliche Glaskunst – Blaschka-Haus e.V.". Johanna Dühning, Chairman of the Association; translation by Benjamin Pentzold (archived 2002-09-10).
  14. ^ "Leopold + Rudolf Blaschka {...} The Glass Aquarium {...}". Design Museum (designmuseum.org). Retrieved 2015-06-10.
  15. ^ "Blaschkas Around the World".
  16. ^ National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoir
  17. ISBN 1-84246-085-4
    .

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