The Correspondence of Caspar Georg Carl Reinwardt - DWC - KNAW

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- Oratio de ardore, quo historiae naturalis et imprimis botanices cultores in sua studia
feruntur (Harderovici, 1801);
- Oratio de chemiae et historiae naturalis recte instituendis (Amstelodami, 1810);
- Oratio de augmentis, quae historiae naturalis ex Indiae investigatione accesserunt
(Lugduno-Batavorum, 1823);
- Oratio de geologiae ortu et progressu (Lugduno-Batavorum, 1823).
In de Nova Acta physico-medica Academieae Caesarea Leopoldino Carolinae naturae
Curiosorum, the following papers appeared:
- ‘Spiridens, novum muscorum diploperistomiorum genus detexit Dr. C.G.C.
Reinwardt,A.C.N.C.S. descripsit Dr.C.G. Nees ab Esenbeck,Acad. h.t. Praeses
(c. tab. aenea picta)’;Vol. XI, 1823;
- ‘Hepaticae Javanicae, editiae conjunctus studiis et opera Reinwardti, Blumii et
Neesii Ab Esenbeck;A.C.N.C.S. (cum tab. pict.)’,Vol. XII, pars 1, 1824;
- ‘Ueber den Charakter der Vegetation auf den Inseln des Indischen Archipels’,
speech delivered on 20 September 1828, at the occasion of his presence in the
‘Versammlung deutscher Naturforscher und Aerzte’ in Berlin;
- ‘Observatio de Magniferae semine polyembryoneo, auctore C.G.C. Reinwardt
et Dr. Hornschuchii’, A.C.N.C.S. (cum. tab. tribus acri insculptis)’,Vol. XIV,
pars 2, 1829.
On 27 January 1851, the first draft of a text, relative to the announcement of the
fiftieth jubilee of Reinwardt’s professorate, was made public. N.C. Kist (rector of
Leyden University), Jacobus Geel (professor and librarian of Leyden University),
J.H. Molkenboer (botanist, Leyden),Willem Hendrik deVriese (zoologist, Leiden)
and Jeronimo de Vries (Amsterdam) decided together about the final text of this
official document.They also had to propose the text to be engraved on the gold
medal to be minted in honour of their friend and colleague. The anniversary was
celebrated on 10 June 1851, exactly 50 years after Reinwardt had delivered his
inaugural address at the university of Harderwijk. [See: KB 121 B 8/28: 27 January
1851]
Caspar Georg Carl Reinwardt died on 6 March 1854, at the age of almost 81
years. His death was considered a great loss to the fatherland. He was one of the
founders of the ‘modern’ natural sciences, which developed and diversified in the