REICHENBACH, rildnen-bint, Karl, Baton vox, German naturalist: b. Stuttgart, 12 Feb. 1788; d. Leipzig, 19 Jan. 1869. He studied at Tfibingee, where he obtained the degree of doctor of philosophy, and was denounced to the Napoleonic police and imprisoned for hav ing organized an association with the fanciful object of founding a German kingdom in the South Seas. He. visited the principal iron works in Franke and Germany and established others of his own at Viliingen and the first large
charcoal-burning establishment at Hausach in Baden. In 1821 he founded with Count Hugo an Saha a number of industrial. establishments in Moravia; from which he real-. ized a considerable fortune. The king of Wfir temberg raised him to the dignity of baron in 1839. In 1834 he published in Vienna 'Mit theilungen aus Mahren,' the first geological monograph in Austria. He is also credited with some chemical discoveries. in particular of paraffin and creosote. In the course of his studies of animal magnetism he believed he had discovered a new force, which he called od and upon which he published several works, as
(1852) ;
possessed by certain persons of special sensi tiveness, which enabled them to detect veins of ore, distinguish negative and positive magnetic poles, start a pendulum without touching it and the like. He derived the word from the Latin vado, "I go quickly." Part of the scientific world attacked his theory, but the larger por tion laughed it out of court; and after his death it was quite forgotten. Among his other literary productions may be mentioned 'Geolo gische Mittheilungen aus
(1834) ; Was Kreosot' (1833) ; 'Die Dynamide des Neognetismus' (1840);
Erweidcrun gen' (1856) ;
and
senschaft,' in reply to Karl Vogt (1856); (Aphorismen fiber Sensibilitat und
(1866); 'Die odische Lobe' (1867).