Gottfried Christian Reich

He also took an interest in natural history and edited two short-lived periodicals, one on the animal kingdom and another on plants.

He studied medicine at Jena and Erlangen and received a doctorate in 1793 for a thesis titled Brevis epidemiae variolosae Arzbergensis anni 1791 delineatio.

He also edited periodicals on plants and animals, describing two new insects and a hummingbird species.

[1] The Prussian government requested him to conduct some experiments to demonstrate this at the Charité hospital in Berlin in 1799.

He was posted as professor of medicine when Berlin University was founded and he worked there until his death.