Henry Correvon

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Henry Correvon (born August 15, 1854 in Yverdon ; died November 5, 1939 in Herisau ) was a Swiss writer and garden architect who brought alpine flora to the cities and created many alpine gardens. His Jardin alpin d'acclimatation floraire in Chêne-Bourg achieved worldwide importance.

Correvon first completed an apprenticeship as a gardener in the family business in Yverdon and later in Geneva, where he got to know the botanical garden. He trained in Zurich with Otto Froebel , in Frankfurt, Erfurt and Paris, where he was a gardener-botanist at the Natural History Museum . In 1875 he took over his grandfather's business in Yverdon, and in 1879 he founded his own company in Geneva. Its importance for garden architecture is based on the observational reconstruction of the geological conditions and entire plant habitats from the perspective of the alpinist. The 'Murs Fleuris', the dry stone walls planted with upholstered perennials, go back to him. As a co-founder of the Ligue pour la protection des plantes alpines, a forerunner of the Swiss Federation for Nature Conservation and as the author of a total of 28 books on alpine flora and alpine gardens, he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Geneva in 1931.

Works (selection)

Garden designs

  • La Linnaea Alpine Garden , Great Saint Bernhard 1889
  • La Rambertia , Rochers de Naye 1896
  • La Chanousia , Little Saint Bernard 1897
  • Parc des Bastions , Alpine Garden, Geneva 1936

Fonts

  • Les Plantes des Alpes. Geneva 1885
  • Les plantes alpines et de rocailles. Paris 1895
  • Atlas de la flore alpine. Geneva 1899
  • Album des orchidées. Geneva 1899
  • Nos arbres. Geneva 1906
  • The Alpine Flora. London 1911
  • Rock Gardens and Alpine Plants. New York 1930
  • Floraire, genèse et développement d'un jardin séculaire. Geneva 1936

literature

  • Emil Steiner: Correvon, Henry. In: Isabelle Rucki and Dorothee Huber (eds.): Architectural Lexicon of Switzerland - 19./20. Century. Birkhäuser, Basel 1998. ISBN 3-7643-5261-2 , p. 134

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Henry Correvon: Album des orchidées de l'Europe centrale et septentrionale . W. Kündig & Fils, Geneva 1899, p. XI (French, online [accessed August 22, 2018] in archive.org , reprinted in BHL ).
personal data
SURNAME Correvon, Henry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss writer and garden architect
DATE OF BIRTH August 15, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH Yverdon
DATE OF DEATH November 5, 1939
Place of death Herisau