Eduard Schmidlin

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Eduard Schmidlin (born July 8, 1808 in Rottenburg am Neckar , † February 5, 1890 in Dresden ) was a German - Swiss gardener , revolutionary , botanical author and hotelier .

Life

Schmidlin was born in 1808 as the son of a law firm and after attending grammar school he studied natural sciences in Tübingen , where he became a member of the Feuerreiter fraternity in 1828 . After giving up his studies, he became a gardening assistant in Stuttgart and worked in the royal gardening shop. After participating in the Frankfurt Wachensturm , he hid in the Austrian Legation Palace so that he could escape unnoticed. However, he was later arrested as a participant in the Franckh-Koseritz conspiracy and sentenced to imprisonment in Hohenasperg fortress . After his release he worked as an art and landscape gardener as well as the author of numerous botanical works in Konstanz and Stuttgart, among others . In 1857 he was appointed by Conrad von Rappard to design the garden and landscape for the first hotel on Giessbach and was soon very successful as a hotel and inn manager. In the years up to 1870 he made the Giessbach a major attraction for tourism. In 1868 he was in Brienz for Swiss citizens appointed. From 1872 to 1882 he was the manager of the Hotel Bellevue in Thun . He then retired into private life and died in Dresden in 1890. His tomb has been preserved to this day.

Honors

  • 2008: Honor roll of the Giessbach Foundation for the Swiss people on his 200th birthday

Publications (selection)

  • Flora of Stuttgart, or description of the visibly blooming plants growing wild in the area around Stuttgart. Stuttgart 1832.
  • Thorough instructions for cultivating cucumbers, melons and other pumpkin-fruit plants. Stuttgart 1833.
  • Johann Jakob Walter's general German gardening book or new non-profit and complete practical instructions for the creation and treatment of pleasure, kitchen and tree gardens. Stuttgart from 1834 (together with Johann Jakob Walter).
  • The bourgeois garden art or practical instructions for the most appropriate layout, division and cultivation of the house and commercial gardens together with a comprehensive compilation of the most suitable trees, shrubs and other ornamental plants, with information on their height, the type of their growth and foliage, the flowering time and color, etc. : a handbook for garden owners of every class and trade, but especially for commercial gardeners and those who want to devote themselves to garden art; with lots of garden plans and cost estimates ... Stuttgart 1843.
  • Popular botany, or common understanding of the study of plants and the plant kingdom; At the same time a manual for identifying the plants on excursions; with more than 1,600 images. Stuttgart 1857 Digitized edition of the University and State Library of Düsseldorf

literature

  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , p. 264.
  • Otto Elben : Nekrolog in Schwäbischer Merkur from February 6, 1890.
  • Thomas Krebs: Eduard Schmidlin. Gardener, botanist and hotelier, 1808-1890 in: Lebensbilder aus Baden-Württemberg, 23rd vol., 176-198, Stuttgart 2010.
  • Thomas Krebs: Eduard Schmidlin (1808-1890) - gardener, revolutionary, botanical writer, hotel director, tourism pioneer in: Zandera, messages from the library of German horticulture e. V., Berlin, 26 (2011), No. 1, pp. 14-28.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Small tour of Giessbach , information page from March 6, 2010 on dampfromantik-nostalgie.ch
  2. ^ Eduard Schmidlin in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved January 9, 2015.

Web links


personal data
SURNAME Schmidlin, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Swiss gardener, revolutionary, botanical author and hotelier
DATE OF BIRTH July 8, 1808
PLACE OF BIRTH Rottenburg am Neckar
DATE OF DEATH February 5, 1890
Place of death Dresden