Jacob Ernst von Reider

Who is Jacob Ernst von Reider?

Jacob Ernst von Reider was a German zoologist and botanist.

Reider wrote "Fauna Boica, oder gemeinnützige Naturgeschichte der Thiere Bayerns" with Carl Wilhelm Hahn and "Gartenbau als die höchste Kultur des Grund und Bodens in Deutschland". He was a prolific writer on agriculture and horticulture, publishing treatises on flax, sugar substitutes, tobacco, hops, fruit trees, cactus, viticulture, medicinal plants, various flowers and ornamental plants, et al.