In 1821, he became a member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, in 1830 ordinary professor and a member of the Academic Council; in 1836 he was appointed honourable Doctor of Philosophy, and in 1839 he became titular councillor of state. He was the father of herpetologist Johannes Theodor Reinhardt (1816-1882), who with Christian Frederik Lütken (1827-1901), published "Bidrag til Kundskab om Brasiliens Padder og Krybdyr" (Contributions to the knowledge of Brazilian amphibians and reptiles. Reinhardt died on 31 October 1845 in Copenhagen.