Bouché (family)
Bouché is the name of a gardener family of Huguenot origin who had been based in Berlin since 1685 .
The name is sometimes incorrectly spelled "Bocher".
history
Well-known family members include David Bouché (around 1669–1727), who founded a floriculture and tree nursery in Berlin, which his descendant Peter Friedrich Bouché (1785–1856) successfully continued. Another important member of the extensive family is Johann Peter Paul Bouché (1759–1846), who has made a name for himself both as a garden designer and as a local politician.
The "regulated planting of trees near Treptow" founded by Johann Peter Paul Bouché was the forerunner of today's Treptower Park .
Known family members
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David Bouché (around 1669–1727) left his hometown Bonnay in Champagne in 1696 and settled in Berlin. He founded a floriculture and tree nursery in Berlin in 1704.
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Pierre Bouché (1703–1784), renewed fruit and vegetable cultivation in Berlin and the Mark Brandenburg. Son of David Bouché.
- Johann Peter Bouché (1735–1807), son of Pierre Bouché.
- Johann Peter Paul Bouché (born June 27, 1759; † January 29, 1846 in Berlin), garden designer and Berlin local politician (city councilor and member of the forestry and economics deputation). The "regulated planting of trees near Treptow" founded by him was the forerunner of today's Treptower Park . Son of Johann Peter Bouché.
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Jean David Bouché (1747–1819), son of Pierre Bouché, took over his business in 1781, city councilor and operator of a coffee bar.
- Carl David Bouché (senior) (1782–?), Son of Jean David Bouché.
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Peter Carl Bouché (1783–1856), son of Jean David Bouché, was active as a gardener, botanist and author of horticultural and botanical writings.
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Carl David Bouché (junior) (1809–1881), also: Karl David Bouché or David Karl Bouché, director of the Royal Botanical Garden in Berlin , also a painter. Designed the palm house in the Royal Botanical Garden in 1857/58. Son of Peter Carl Bouché.
- Julius Bouché , also Carl Friedrich Julius Bouché or Karl Friedrich Julius Bouché (1846–1922). Son of Carl David Bouché.
- Friedrich Bouché , also: Johann Carl Friedrich Bouché (1850–1933), further son of Carl David Bouché, garden architect, pupil of Gustav Meyer , from 1873 at the court in Dresden : Hofrat and Königl. Garden director (from 1878 expansion of the large garden , from 1881 plant Carolasee , 1875 Albertplatz ), also design of the Obercunewalde estate park . Married a daughter of Hermann Seidel from the Dresden gardening dynasty Seidel .
- Karl Emil Bouché (1822–1882)
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Carl David Bouché (junior) (1809–1881), also: Karl David Bouché or David Karl Bouché, director of the Royal Botanical Garden in Berlin , also a painter. Designed the palm house in the Royal Botanical Garden in 1857/58. Son of Peter Carl Bouché.
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Peter Friedrich Bouché (senior) (1785–1856), art and commercial gardener , son of Jean David Bouché, together with his brother Peter Carl Bouché, he successfully continued his trade. Also active as an entomologist.
- Peter Friedrich Bouché (junior) (1820–1876) continued his father's business
- Johann Peter Bouché (1735–1807), son of Pierre Bouché.
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Pierre Bouché (1703–1784), renewed fruit and vegetable cultivation in Berlin and the Mark Brandenburg. Son of David Bouché.
literature
- Meta Brix: debtor. Novel from old Berlin , Berlin-Hamburg: Pinguin-Verlag, 1947
- Gerhard Fischer: They brought beans, asparagus and the rubber tree , in: Berlinische Monatsschrift Heft 4/1996, pp. 24–30
- Clemens Alexander Wimmer: The Berlin gardener family Bouché 1740-1933 , in: Erika Schmidt (Ed.): Garden - Art - History. Festschrift for Dieter Hennebo on his 70th birthday , Worms am Rhein: Werner, 1994, pp. 44–52, ISBN 3-88462-107-6