Hans Meilan

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Hans Meilan (* before 1635; † 1675 in Hamburg ) was a commercial gardener .

Life

Meilan was first mentioned in 1635. He probably came from Italy. He was the gardener of the Dutch businessman Hans Berenberg , who moved to Hamburg-Neustadt in the 1720s. Meilan founded a nursery there on the Fuhlentwiete . Commercial nurseries were probably operated in Hamburg for the first time in Germany. Meilan's Index Seminum , in which flower seeds from Nuremberg and Italy were offered, is the oldest verifiable catalog of a gardener. Invoices have been received that he issued to Joachim Jungius for bulbs of tulips , Arabian milk star , checkerboard flowers , " Lilium Alexandrinum " and imperial crowns . He also bought castor , marjoram , thyme and basil seeds . At that time, individual seeds and onions often cost more than the daily wage of a journeyman mason. Meilan also supplied the dukes of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf .

After his death in 1675, the nursery was continued by his son Rudolf (1650–1706) and then closed.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Die Welt : The Hanseatic Green Passion , February 26, 2006
  2. ↑ Clemens Alexander Wimmer: On the emergence of tree nurseries in Germany in Sylvia Butenschön (editor): Early tree nurseries in Germany , Univerlagtuberlin, 2012, p. 25 ( limited preview in the Google book search)
  3. ^ Hamburger Abendblatt : Joachim Jungius: The universe on slips of paper , September 16, 2012
  4. ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt: Pleasure Gardens: Hamburg's Lost Paradises , 23 September 2006
personal data
SURNAME Meilan, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hamburg commercial gardener
DATE OF BIRTH before 1635
DATE OF DEATH 1675
Place of death Hamburg