Hugh Johnson

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Hugh Johnson

Hugh Johnson OBE (born March 10, 1939 in London ) is a British wine critic .

Life

Hugh Johnson was born in St. John's Wood , London, to a lawyer. He grew up in London and Kent. Johnson attended boarding school in British rugby and studied English at King's College , Cambridge . He later worked for Vogue , House & Garden magazine and as editor of Wine & Food magazine, where he was the editor of the wine review. He then became editor of The Sunday Times' travel topics . In 1963, Hugh Johnson became general secretary of the Food & Wine Society in London.

Since 1971 he has published the World Atlas of Wine , which has also been available in German translation every year since 1972. Hugh Johnson's books have a total circulation of around 3.5 million (as of 2010) and have been translated into over ten languages. Well-known German-language editions are Der kleine Johnson (new edition annually) and Der große Johnson . The Little Johnson is as printed on the cover of the best-selling wine guide in the world.

Hugh Johnson also has an in-depth knowledge of dendrology and is a writer of books and columns on gardening topics in the field . In 1973 he published The International Book of Trees and in 1975 he became editor of The Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society (The Garden) , for which he published his own columns. A 37 year column, Trad's Diary , appears online in Hortus magazine. In 2010 his internationally successful dendrological handbook on forest and garden trees came out in a revised new version (German trees: The forest and garden trees of the world ).

Hugh Johnson lived with his family near Braintree , Essex for many years before moving back to London in 2013.

Publications

  • Little Johnson 2017. Gräfe and Unzer, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3833857218 .
  • The World Atlas of Wine (1971, eight editions; since 2004 in co-authorship with Jancis Robinson )
  • Trees - A Lifetime's Journey through Forests, Woods and Gardens (2010); German as: Trees: The forest and garden trees of the world. Translated into German by Bettina Borst, Haupt, Bern / Stuttgart / Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-258-07672-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Adam Lechmere: 'Sprightly and effervescent' Hugh Johnson honored with OBE. January 8, 2007; Retrieved November 22, 2019 (American English).
  2. ↑ Hugh Jonson's online diary Trad's Diary ( memento of the original from January 8, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tradsdiary.com
  3. ^ Eric Asimov: Hugh Johnson's Lifelong Journey Among the Trees. nytimes, October 27, 2016; accessed October 30, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Johnson, Hugh
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British wine critic
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH London