Carl Ludwig Gené
Carl Ludwig Gené (born May 8, 1820 in Kossenblatt ; † June 16, 1893 in Buchheide near Stettin ) was a German forester of Huguenot descent.
life and work
Gené studied forest sciences at the Forest Academy in Eberswalde and gained his first professional experience in the province of Poznan . In 1863 he came to Mühlenbeck (now in Polish: Śmierdnica ) as a forester in the Greifenhagen district near Stettin. Here he was responsible for the Buchheide area , which is now a landscape protection park .
Gené made sure that the overexploitation of the forest was curbed, reforested clearings, created hiking trails and described the natural monuments of the area. From 1870 Gené began to create a dendrological garden near the village of Glien (now Polish: Glinna) on a former tree nursery by planting rare tree species and shrubs, from which today's arboretum ( Ogród dendrologiczny w Glinnej ) emerged with almost 800 genera and varieties.
At the age of 73, Carl Ludwig Gené was killed in a railway accident. A year later, the Szczecin Buchheide Association honored him with an obelisk that still exists today on the Höllenberg (Polish: Piekielnik ).
literature
- Hermann Manzke and Katharina Gené: Royal Forest Master Carl Ludwig Gené and his services to the Buchheide . In: Pomerania. Journal for Culture and History , Issue 4/2019, pp. 33–40
Web links
- Marcin Gigiel: Carl Ludwig Gené - about the monument hidden in the middle of trees . January 2012 ( digitized version )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gené, Carl Ludwig |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 8, 1820 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kossenblatt |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 16, 1893 |
| Place of death | Szczecin |