Johannes Theodor Reinhardt (3 December 1816, in
Copenhagen
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– 23 October 1882, in
Frederiksberg
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) was a
Danish zoologist
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and
herpetologist
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. He was the son of
Johannes Christopher Hagemann Reinhardt
Johannes Christopher Hagemann Reinhardt (23 December 1778 – 31 October 1845), sometimes called J. C. H. Reinhardt, was a professor in zoology at the University of Copenhagen.
Born in Rendal Municipality, Rendalen parish in Norway, his father, J ...
.
Biography
He participated as botanist in the first
Galathea Expedition (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'') was a separate zoological museum in Copenhagen, Denmark. It is now a part of the Natural History Museum of Denmark, which is affiliated with the University of Copenhagen. The separa ...
). He taught classes in
zoology
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at the ''
Danmarks Tekniske Universitet'' (1856–1878) and at the
University of Copenhagen
The University of Copenhagen (, KU) is a public university, public research university in Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. Founded in 1479, the University of Copenhagen is the second-oldest university in Scandinavia, after Uppsala University.
...
(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
Paleontology, also spelled as palaeontology or palæontology, is the scientific study of the life of the past, mainly but not exclusively through the study of fossils. Paleontologists use fossils as a means to classify organisms, measure geolo ...
Peter Wilhelm Lund
Peter Wilhelm Lund (14 June 1801 – 25 May 1880) was a Danish Brazilian paleontologist, zoologist, and archeology, archeologist. He spent most of his life working and living in Brazil. He is considered the father of Brazilian paleontology as wel ...
(1801–1880). He was an early supporter of
Charles Darwin
Charles Robert Darwin ( ; 12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English Natural history#Before 1900, naturalist, geologist, and biologist, widely known for his contributions to evolutionary biology. His proposition that all speci ...
’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 natural history, naturalist and zoology, zoologist, sometimes referred to as the "founding father of paleontology". Cuv ...
's concept of "anti-evolutionary catastrophism".
[
With ]Christian Frederik Lütken
Christian Frederik Lütken (; 7 October 1827, in Sorø – 6 February 1901), was a 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 followi ...
(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 stimulated ...
named the Calabar "python", ''Calabaria reinhardtii'', in his honor. Reinhardt's caecilian, ''Mimosiphonops reinhardti
''Mimosiphonops reinhardti'' is a species of caecilian in the family Siphonopidae. It is Endemism, endemic to Brazil. It is only known from the holotype collected from "Brasilia" in 1878, probably somewhere in eastern Brazil (the city of Brasíli ...
'', was named for him in 1992, more than 100 years after he had collected the holotype
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.
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