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### Author
Reichel, Georg Christian (1727-1771), German (Saxonian/Thuringian) physician and botanist; Dr. phil. Leipzig 1759; professor of medicine at the University of Leipzig 1767-1771.
**Abbreviated name**: *G. Reichel* \[standard form in IPNI: *Reichel*\]
#### Herbarium and types
Unknown.
#### Bibliography and biography
Backer p. 486; Barnhart 3: 139; BM 4: 1667-1668; CSP 5: 139 (1 no.); Dryander 3: 372; Herder p. 473; PR 4670, 7488 (b. 1727), ed. 1: 5210, 8430; Rehder 1: 133.
#### Biofile
- Anon., Cat. gén. Bibl. nat. 148: 273-274. 1938; Brit. Mus. gen. cat. 200: 351. 1963.
- Dezeimeris, Dict. hist. méd. 3(2): 792. 1837.
- Hartenstein, J.G., Südhoff's Arch. Gesch. Med. 31: 188-200. 1938.
- Poggendorff, J.C., Biogr.-lit. Handw.-Buch 7a, suppl. (4): 533. 1971 (baptized 9 Jun 1727, d. 24 Jan 1771, accident).
- Schmid, G., Goethe u.d. Naturw. 562. 1940 (R. was Goethe's physician at Leipzig).
#### Eponymy
*Reichelia* Schreber (1789) probably honors this author, but no etymology was given; *Reichela* Cothenius (1790, *orth. var.*).
### Publications
##### n.8866. De vasis plantarum spiralibus
**Title**
*De vasis plantarum spiralibus* amplissimi philosophorum ordinis in Academia lipsiensi consensu die iii. maii a.o.r. \[mdlviii\] disserit M. Georg Christian Reichel Mulhusa Thuringus medicinus baccalaureus... Lipsiae \[Leipig\] (ex Officina Breitkopfia). Qu.
**Abbreviated title**: *Vasis pl. spiral.*
**Notes**
*Publ*.: 3 Mai 1758, p. \[i-iii\], \[1\]-44, *1 pl*. (uncol. auct.). *Copy*: USDA.