Carl Ferdinand Bosse

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Carl Ferdinand Bosse (born April 23, 1755 in Wolfenbüttel , † July 28, 1793 in Rastede ) was a German court gardener . He rebuilt the palace gardens in Rastede and laid the foundations for the palace gardens in Lütetsburg .

Life

Bosse came from a family that had been gardening for several generations . He was the eldest son from the first marriage of the Brunswick court gardener Ludwig Johann Bosse (1716–1775) in Wolfenbüttel, the later Oldenburg court gardener Christian Ludwig Bosse was his brother. Bosse attended grammar school in Braunschweig and completed an apprenticeship as a gardener in the court garden there after graduating from secondary school. Afterwards he was employed as a gardening assistant in various princely gardens in Germany, for example in the Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe until 1776 . He then traveled to England and worked for the well-known landscape architect Lancelot Brown , who has become famous as the main promoter of the landscape gardening movement.

In 1784, Bosse was appointed as a gardener in Rastede by the Oldenburg prince Peter Friedrich Ludwig , who at that time ruled the Duchy of Oldenburg as administrator , and was given the task of redesigning the existing and neglected baroque garden and the adjacent area into a landscape garden. In 1784 he brought the rhododendron , which is typical of the region today, to the Ammerland . In 1792 he bought a piece of land in Rastede himself, on which he and his wife set up a small gardening business with a seed trade. Bosse also accepted commissions for garden designs from private individuals, and from 1790 to 1793 he also worked as a consulting garden artist for Edzard Moritz zu Innhausen and Knyphausen in Lütetsburg . Here he laid the foundation stone for what would later become the Lütetsburg Palace Park, which Bosses son would continue to run. One of the students who Bosse trained was August Kunze (1779–1858) from Jever , who later worked as a successful garden designer in Jeverland, for example in the garden design of Groß Scheep . Bosse died in 1793 after a long illness, his brother Christian Ludwig continued to run the court gardener in Rastede as his successor.

family

Bosse was married to Johanne Christiane Friederice born in 1784. Seuter (1759–1817), the daughter of the doctor Johann Georg Seuter from Goslar . The marriage came from Julius Friedrich Wilhelm Bosse (1788–1864), who later also became court gardener and court garden inspector in Oldenburg.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Frankfurter Rundschau: Blossom Tour: Flowers in the Ammerland - By bike to the rhododendron . In: Frankfurter Rundschau . ( fr.de [accessed on May 30, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Bosse, Carl Ferdinand
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bosses, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German court gardener
DATE OF BIRTH April 23, 1755
PLACE OF BIRTH Wolfenbüttel
DATE OF DEATH July 28, 1793
Place of death Rastede