Otto Wilhelm Hermann Reinhardt (1838 in

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– 1924 in

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) was a

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and

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. He was a teacher at a trade school in Berlin. Reinhardt was a friend of

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and co-founder of the botanical society in

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province. He described the snails '' Vitrea subrimata'' in 1871 and ''

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'' and ''

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'' in 1883. This last is the type species of Reinhardt's genus '' Euconulus''. He was a Member of Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin. His collection is curated in

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Works

*Reinhardt, O. 1859 (1860) ''Lycopodium Selago'' L. var. recurvum Kit. ''Verhandlungen des Botanischen Vereins von Berlin und Brandenburg'' 1:100 *Reinhardt, O. 1860 (1861)Zusatz zu dem Aufsatz von Areschoug über ''Tortula papillosa'' Wils.''Verhandlungen des Botanischen Vereins von Berlin und Brandenburg'' 2:210 *Reinhardt, O. 1863 Übersicht der in der Mark Brandenburg bisher beobachteten Laubmoose ''Verhandlungen des Botanischen Vereins von Berlin und Brandenburg'' 5:1-52 *Reinhardt, O. 1871. Über die in Deutschland vorkommenden Hyalinen aus der Crystallina-Gruppe. ''Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin'' 2: 39–40. *Reinhardt O. 1881. Eine Anzahl griechischer Schnecken. ''Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft der Naturforschenden Freunde, Berlin'' 1881 (9): 135–137. *Reinhardt, O. 1879. Ueber die ''Isthmia''-Arten und ihre geographische Verbreitung. ''Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin'' 1879 (9): 133–139. *Reinhardt, O. 1880. Über die ''Acme'' -Arten des Banats und Siebenbürgens. '' Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin'' 1880 (2): 45–47. *Reinhardt, O. 1880. Nachtrag zu seinem in der vorigen Sitzung gehaltenen Vortage über die Orcula-Arten''Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin'' 1880 (2): 44–45. *Reinhardt, O. 1881. Eine Anzahl griechischer Schnecken. ''Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin'' 1881 (9): 135–137. *Reinhardt, O. 1883. Über die von den Herren Gebrüder Krause auf ihrer Reise gesammelten ''Pupa'' -, ''Hyalina''- und ''Vallonia'' -Arten. ''Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin'' 1883: 37–43. *Reinhardt, O. 1883. Einige von Herrn D. W. Kobelt in Schwanheim a. M. zur Begutachtung übersandte, von Herrn Hungerford gesammelte japanische Hyalinen ''Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin'' 1883: 82–86. *Reinhardt, O. 1886 Land- und Süsswassermollusken, welche Herr Dr. O. Finsch von seiner letzten Reise nach Neu-Guinea mitgebracht hat ''Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin'' 1886:57-63.

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* tto Wilhelm Hermann Reinhardt ''Verh. Bot. Ver. Prov. Brandenburg'' 67: 7 - 11. 1925. *Jan-Peter Frah and Jens Eggers,2001 ''Lexikon deutschsprachiger Bryologen'' 674 Pages Books on demand
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*J. Royer, 1925. Nachruf für Professor Dr. Otto Reinhardt. ''

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'' 57(1): 1–8, pl. 1 iography, bibliography,portrait *Coan, E. V. & Kabat, A. R. 2018. ''2,400 Years of Malacology''. 15th ed., February 11, 2018, 1,594 pp. + 109 pp. nnex 1 – Book Collations+ 65 pp. nnex 2 – Küster Collation 51 pp. nnex 3 – Journal Collations American Malacological Societ

*Dance, S. P. 1986. ''A history of shell collecting''. E. J. Brill-W. Backhuys, Leiden. xv + 265 pp., 32 pls. German malacologists 1924 deaths 1838 births {{Germany-biologist-stub