Johann Jacob Reichard (7 August 1743 in Frankfurt – 21 January 1782 in Frankfurt) was a German physician and

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. He studied medicine, philosophy and natural sciences at the

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, receiving his doctorate in 1768. While working as a physician in his hometown, he carried out investigations of flora native to the Frankfurt am Main area, publishing ''Flora Moeno-Francofurtana'' (2 volumes, 1772–78) as a result. Beginning in 1773, he served as chief physician at the Senckenburg Foundation, in which capacity, he was in charge of its library, botanical gardens and chemistry laboratory.Plett - Schmidseder
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Walther Killy Walther Killy (26 August 191728 December 1995) was a German literary scholar who specialised in poetry, especially that of Friedrich Hölderlin and Georg Trakl. He taught at the Free University of Berlin, the Georg-August-Universität Göttinge ...

Dictionary of German Biography From 1779 he worked as a physician at the Bürgerhospital in Frankfurt. In 1775 he became a member of the

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. In 1780 he was founding editor of the periodical, ''Medizinisches Wochenblatt für Aerzte, Wundārzte und Apotheker''. The plant genus ''

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'' (family

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) was named in his honor by

Albrecht Wilhelm Roth Albrecht Wilhelm Roth (6 January 1757 – 16 October 1834) was a physician and botanist born in Dötlingen, Germany. He studied medicine at the Universities of Halle and Erlangen, where he received his doctorate in 1778. After graduation, he pra ...

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