> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 665](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33190136) of TL-2 Vol. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/8252-1) LSID 8252-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q61147) QID Q61147 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Reichenbach, Carl \[Karl\] Ludwig \[Freiherr\] von (1788-1869), German (Württemberg) botanist, chemist and industrialist; studied at Tübingen 1807-1809, specialized in industrial carbonization; from 1822-1839 in charge of the mining industry and metallurgical plants at Blansko (Moravia), studying the chemical products of carbonization as well as the geology of the region; from 1839 residing at his property Reisenberg near Wien as private scientist, developing e.g. his "Odlehre" of physiological magnetism. **Abbreviated name**: *C. Rchb.* \[standard form in IPNI: *C.Rchb.*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection AWH|AWH]] (includes herbarium F.W. Sieber (1785-1844); forms nucleus of the Van Heurck herbarium). Correspondence in SIA; letters to D.F.L. von Schlechtendal at [[Collection HAL|HAL]]; the main part of the Reichenbach papers is in the collection of manuscripts of the Technische Museum, Wien (Hss. Gruppe X, Nr. 192-343, 405-408). #### Note R.'s main works on his "Od" concept were "Odisch-magnetische Briefe" (1853) and "Der sensitive Mensch" (1854). The theory ("od" as the carrier of all formative forces in life) is now only of historical interest. His – only – botanical work "Die Pflanzenwelt in ihren Beziehungen zur Sensitivität und zum Ode" Wien 1858 (ed. 2. 1909) deals with this same theme of physiological magnetism. Reichenbach gave the etymology of the word *Od* as follows: "Wodan bezeichnet im Altgermanischen den Begriff des Alldurchdringen, daraus Wuodin, Odon, Odin, die alldurchdringende Kraft. *Od* ist somit das Lautzeichen für einer alles in der Natur mit unaufhaltsamer Kraft durchdringenden und durchströmenden Kraft, durchdringenden und durchströmenden Dynamid." (see Bauer, 1911, p. 13). There is no known family relationship with H.G.L. von Reichenbach, who stemmed from a Thuringian family. See R. v. Reichenbach et al. (1869) for further details; and D.F.L. von Schlechtendal, Bot. Zeit. 16: 81-82. 1858 for a review of his 1858 publ. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 139 (b. 12 Feb 1788, d. 19 Jan 1869); BM 4: 1670, 8: 1060 (Brit. Mus. Gen. cat. 200: 366-368. 1963); CSP 5: 139-14, 8: 720-721; Herder p. 119; IH 1 (ed. 7): 340 (err. sub H.G. Reichenbach); PR 7517; Rehder 3: 347; SIA 7177; TL-2/see C.F. Hochstetter; WU 25: 169-177. #### Biofile - Anon., Bonplandia 3: 33. 1855, 6: 50. 1858 (cognomen Leopoldina "Orpheus II", more a reference to the descent into Hades (cf. iron industry) than to the loss of Eurydice); Bot. Zeit. 27: 104. 1869 (d.). - Bauer, A., Naturhist.-biogr. Essays, Stuttgart, Verlag von Friedrich Enke, 1911, p. 1-26 ("Erinnerungen an den Freiherrn von Reichenbach"); Karl Ludwig Frhr. von Reichenbach, Wien 1917. - Frison, Ed., Henri Ferdinand van Heurck 1959, p. 19, 38, 39, 40 (hist. herb.); Tijdschr. Stad Antwerpen 6(1): 33-41. 1960 (Reichenbach acquired Sieber herb. in 1837). - Habacher, M., Jahrbuch Geschichte Oberdeutsche Reichsstädte, Esslinger Studien 16: 172-227. 1970 (on C.F. Hochstetter and C.L. v. Reichenbach, extensive study). - Habasker, Frau Dr., Deut. Apoth. Zeit. 103: 704-706. 1963 (corr. with F.W. Sertüner). - Kohn, M., J. Chem. Educ. 32: 188-189. 1955. - Poggendorff, J.C., Biogr.-lit. Handw.-Buch 2: 593-594. 1893, 3: 1101. 1898, 7a: 534-535. 1971 (bibl., sec. refs.). - Reichenbach, R. v. et al., Alman. Akad. Wiss., Wien 19: 326-369. 1869 (biogr.). - Verdoorn, F., ed., Chron. bot. 3: 22. 1937. - Zittel, K.A. v., Gesch. Geol. Paläont. 243-244. 1899; Hist. geol. palaeontol. 165. 1901. #### Note - (1) For an extensive listing of biographical references on C.L. von Reichenbach see Poggendorff (1971). Most of R's activities were in chemistry. - (2) Reichenbach's daughter, Hermine von Reichenbach, is the anonymous author of the paper "*Untersuchungen über zellenartigen Ausfüllungen der Gefässe*, von einem Ungenannten", Bot. Zeit. 3: 225-231, 241-253. 1845 (see Habacher, 1970, p. 200).