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Heinrich Gottlieb Ludwig Reichenbach (January 8, 1793 - March 17, 1879) was a German botanist and ornithologist.

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.

Reichenbach was born in Leipzig. From 1810 he studied medicine 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 Surgical-Medical Academy in 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.

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 having a plant named after him : Viola reichenbachiana Jord. ex Bor. (syn. V. sylvatica (Hartm.) Fr. ex Hartm. and V. sylvestris Lam. p.p.) (the Slender Wood Violet). Reichenbach's Sunbird (Anabathmis reichenbachii) is also named after him.

The standard author abbreviation Rchb. is used to indicate this individual as the author when citing a botanical name.

Publications

  • Flora germanica excursoria (1830–32, 2 tomes)
  • Flora exotica (1834–36)
  • Flora germanica exsiccata (1830–45)
  • Ãœbersicht 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)

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Anthem
"Das Lied der Deutschen" (third stanza)
also called "Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit"
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Botany is the scientific study of plant life. As a branch of biology, it is also called plant science(s), phytology, or plant biology. Botany covers a wide range of scientific disciplines that study plants, algae, and fungi including: structure, growth,
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Ornithology (from Greek: ορνισ, ornis, "bird"; and λόγος, logos, "knowledge") is the branch of zoology concerned with the study of birds.
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Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach (Leipzig, January 3 1823 - Hamburg, May 6 1889) was an ornithologist, botanist and the foremost German orchidologist of the 19th century. His father Heinrich Gottlieb Ludwig Reichenbach (author of Icones Florae Germanicae et Helveticae
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Orchidaceae
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Subfamilies
  • Apostasioideae
  • Cypripedioideae
  • Epidendroideae
  • Orchidoideae
  • Vanilloideae


Orchidaceae, also called the Orchid family, is the largest family of the flowering plants (Angiospermae).
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Leipzig
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natural science refers to a rational approach to the study of the universe, which is understood as obeying rules or laws of natural origin. The term natural science
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University of Leipzig (German Universität Leipzig), located in Leipzig in the Free State of Saxony (former Kingdom of Saxony), Germany, is one of the oldest universities in Europe.
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Dresden

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Zwinger Palace in Dresden is a major German landmark.

The location was formerly part of the Dresden fortress of which the outer wall is conserved. The name derives from the German word Zwinger
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N. reichenbachii

Binomial name
Nectarinia reichenbachii
Hartlaub, 1857

The Reichenbach's Sunbird (Nectarinia reichenbachii) is a species of bird in the Nectariniidae family.
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    • In botanical nomenclature, author citation refers to citing the person (or group of people) who validly published a botanical name, i.e. who first published the name while fulfilling the formal requirements as specified by the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature
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    botanical name is a formal scientific name conforming to the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature (ICBN). The purpose of formal name is to have a single name that is accepted and used worldwide for a particular plant or plant group.
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