Johannes Theodor Reinhardt (3 December 1816, in
Copenhagen
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– 23 October 1882, in
Frederiksberg
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) was a
Danish
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zoologist
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and
herpetologist
Herpetology (from Greek ἑρπετόν ''herpetón'', meaning "reptile" or "creeping animal") is the branch of zoology concerned with the study of amphibians (including frogs, toads, salamanders, newts, and caecilians (gymnophiona)) and rept ...
. The son of
Johannes Christopher Hagemann Reinhardt.
Biography
He participated as botanist in the first
Galathea Expedition
The ''Galathea'' expeditions comprise a series of three Danish ship-based scientific research expeditions in the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries, carried out with material assistance from the Royal Danish Navy and, with regard to the second and thi ...
(1845—1847). In 1848 he became a
curator
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at the ''Kongelige Naturhistoriske Museum'' in Copenhagen (now
University of Copenhagen Zoological Museum
The Copenhagen Zoological Museum ( Danish: ''Zoologisk Museum'') is a part of the Natural History Museum of Denmark, which is affiliated with the University of Copenhagen.
History
The Zoological Museum It is among the world's oldest natural his ...
). He taught classes in
zoology
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at the ''
Danmarks Tekniske Universitet
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'' (1856–1878) and at the
University of Copenhagen
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(1861–1878). In 1854 he received the title of professor.
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During the 1840s and 1850s he periodically worked in
Brazil
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as an assistant to
palaeontologist
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Peter Wilhelm Lund
Peter Wilhelm Lund (14 June 1801 – 25 May 1880) was a Danish paleontologist, zoologist, and archeologist. He spent most of his life working and living in Brazil. He is considered the father of Brazilian paleontology as well as archaeology.
He ...
(1801–1880). He was an early supporter of
Charles Darwin
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’s theory of evolution, and from his research of extinct species, was critical of
George Cuvier
Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric, Baron Cuvier (; 23 August 1769 – 13 May 1832), known as Georges Cuvier, was a French naturalist and zoologist, sometimes referred to as the "founding father of paleontology". Cuvier was a major figure in nat ...
's concept of "anti-evolutionary catastrophism".
[
With ]Christian Frederik Lütken
Christian Frederik Lütken (; 7 October 1827, in Sorø – 6 February 1901), was a Denmark, Danish zoologist and naturalist.
In 1852, he resigned his commission as a lieutenant with the Danish army, and earned his master's degree in sciences the ...
(1827–1901), he was co-author of ''Bidrag til Kundskab om Brasiliens Padder og Krybdyr'' (Contributions to the knowledge of Brazilian amphibians
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and reptiles
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).
He described 25 new species of reptiles, some with Lütken.
In 1848, Hermann Schlegel
Hermann Schlegel (10 June 1804 – 17 January 1884) was a German ornithologist, herpetologist and ichthyologist.
Early life and education
Schlegel was born at Altenburg, the son of a brassfounder. His father collected butterflies, which stimula ...
named the Calabar "python", ''Calabaria reinhardtii'', in his honor. Reinhardt's caecilian, '' Mimosiphonops reinhardti'', was named for him in 1992, more than 100 years after he had collected the holotype
A holotype is a single physical example (or illustration) of an organism, known to have been used when the species (or lower-ranked taxon) was formally described. It is either the single such physical example (or illustration) or one of several ...
.
See also
* :Taxa named by Johannes Theodor Reinhardt
References
External links
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1816 births
1882 deaths
Danish zoologists
Danish herpetologists
Scientists from Copenhagen
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