Karl Friedrich Reiche

Karl Friedrich Reiche c. 1910

Karl Friedrich Reiche (Spanish: Carlos Reiche, October 31, 1860 – February 26, 1929) was a German botanist who worked as a university professor in Chile and Mexico.

Life

Reiche was born in Dresden and earned his doctorate in 1885 in Leipzig. He worked as a professor in Dresden (1886-1889) and Constitución, Chile (1889-1896). He was a professor in Mexico, and he directed the botanical section of the Chilean National Museum of Natural History (Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Chile) in Santiago de Chile from 1896 to 1911, while Rodolfo Amando Philippi was director. There he published in the Annals of the University of Chile and at the same time six volumes of the Estudios críticos de la Flora de Chile,[1] work which remained unfinished. Although formally he was recognized as the only author of this work, probably he collaborated with Federico Philippi and F. Johow.[2] He wrote the entries to many plant families in the work Die natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien by Adolf Engler and Carl Prantl in the first edition (1890–1897).

Name of a path in Nymphenburg Munich Botanical Garden

Upon leaving the museum, he assumed a post as professor of botany in the Escuela Nacional de Altos Estudios in México (1911-1923).[3] He became a corresponding member of the German Botanical Society (Deutschen Botanischen Gesellschaft) in 1911. From 1924 he worked in Munich, as an independent investigator of the Botanische Staatssammlung München. In 1926 he returned to Mexico to complete his work and take a job as emprendido for the Chilean flora. In 1928 he directed the phanerogamy section of the Botanischer Garten München-Nymphenburg.[4] He died in Munich in 1929.

The plant genus Reichea (Myrcianthes today) in family Myrtaceae, Reicheocactus in family Cactaceae, and Reicheella in family Caryophyllaceae are named for him.[5][6] A type of frog Arthroleptis reichei, sometimes known as 'Reiche's squeaker', is also named after him.[7]

The standard author abbreviation Reiche is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[8]

Writings

  • Grundzüge der Pflanzenverbreitung in Chile, Leipzig, 1907 (Reprint Gantner: Vaduz, 1976). ("Die Vegetation der Erde"; 8) Available online at Internet archive
  • '"Kreuz und quer durch Mexiko" in Wanderbuch eines deutschen Gelehrten. Leipzig: Deutsche Buchwerkstätten GmbH 1930.
  • "Estudios críticos de la Flora de Chile." Anales de Universidad de Chile, 1894–1911. Available online at http://www.efloras.org/
  • Geografía botánica de Chile, 1934
  • La vegetación de los alrededores de la capital de México, 1924
  • Flora excursoria en el Valle Central de México, 1926

Notes

  1. ^ Marticorena C. 1992. Bibliografía Botánica Taxonómica de Chile. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 41.
  2. ^ Gunckel H. 1966. Estudios críticos sobre la flora de Chile ("Flora de Chile") Dr. K. Reiche y sus colaboradores. Moliniana 3: 3-10.
  3. ^ Cuevas C. e I. Ledezma 2006. Alfonso L. Herrera: Controversias y Debates durante el inicio de la biología en México Historia mexicana 55: 973-1013
  4. ^ Ross H. 1929. Karl Reiche Berichen der deutschen Botanischen Gesellschaft 47 Generalversammlung-Heft.
  5. ^ "Reicheella Pax | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 23 May 2021.
  6. ^ Burkhardt, Lotte (2022). Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen [Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2022. ISBN 978-3-946292-41-8. S2CID 246307410. Retrieved January 27, 2022.
  7. ^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael & Grayson, Michael (2013). The Eponym Dictionary of Amphibians. Pelagic Publishing. p. 178. ISBN 978-1-907807-42-8.
  8. ^ International Plant Names Index.  Reiche.

Sources

This article is based on translations of articles from the Spanish Wikipedia and the German Wikipedia.