Georg Ernst Tatter (court gardener)

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Georg Ernst Tatter (born April 8, 1689 in Meiningen , † December 13, 1755 in Herrenhausen near Hanover ) was a German court gardener .

Life

Georg Ernst Tatter was a member of the Tatter family of gardeners and court gardeners, who had been known in the Saxon-Thuringian region since the first half of the 17th century . He is considered the progenitor of the Hanover family. Two of his five children also became gardeners in Herrenhausen. His grandson of the same name Georg Ernst Tatter (1757–1805) became a Hanoverian Legation Councilor and diplomat.

Georg Ernst Tatter moved to Herrenhausen as an orangery gardener in 1734 and also brought an important collection of his own orangery plants and exotic plants with him. In Herrenhausen he also introduced the breeding of pineapples .

In 1744 Tatter went on a study trip to England together with the garden artist Matthias Charbonnier and the diplomat and garden architect Friedrich Karl von Hardenberg .

Fonts

Tatter's autobiography can now be found in the collection of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library ;

  • and electronically by Heike Palm (transcription): Georg Ernst Tatters autobiographical records. Bound manuscript (formerly closed with a seal), in Tatter's copy by Johann Christoph Volkamer : 'Nürnbergische Hesperides, Nürnberg 1708–1714'; Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library / Lower Saxony State Library Hanover, KGBH 682. , as a PDF document

literature

  • Heike Palm, Hubert Rettich: The orangery gardener Georg Ernst Tatter and his sons. The working and living environment of a Hanoverian court gardener family of the 18th century. In: Arbeitskreis Orangerie in Deutschland (Ed.): "From the orangery ..." and other garden stories. Festschrift for Heinrich Hamann. Potsdam 2002, pp. 140-170
  • Hubert Rettich, Michael Rohde: Great gardeners Herrenhausen. In: Marieanne von König (Ed.): Herrenhausen. The Royal Gardens in Hanover . Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen, 2006, ISBN 978-3-8353-0053-8 and ISBN 3-8353-0053-9 , pp. 270f .; Preview over google books
  • Rainer Schomann (Ed.), Urs Boeck : Historical Gardens in Lower Saxony , catalog for the state exhibition, opening on June 9, 2000 in the foyer of the Lower Saxony State Parliament, on the occasion of the state exhibition "Historical Gardens in Lower Saxony". Hanover, 2000, p. 88.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Helmut Knocke : Tatter. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 616f.
  2. ↑ a b o.V. : Tatter, Georg Ernst in the database of Niedersächsische Personen (new entry required) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library in the version of April 3, 2012, last accessed on January 29, 2017
  3. ↑ Helmut Knocke: Charbonnier. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 84, [1] on Google books
personal data
SURNAME Tatter, Georg Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Royal British and Electoral Brunswick-Lüneburg court gardener
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1689
PLACE OF BIRTH Meiningen
DATE OF DEATH December 13, 1755
Place of death Herrenhausen near Hanover