Johann Christian Sckell

Johann Christian Sckell (born August 30, 1773 in Wilhelmsthal near Marksuhl or Eisenach ; † September 25, 1857 in Belvedere near Weimar ) was court gardener in Belvedere near Weimar from 1811 and garden inspector there from 1840. He was the son of Johann Georg Sckell and married his cousin, the daughter of Johann Ludwig Gottlieb Sckell . He comes from the Sckell family of painters and gardeners . Sckell was the brother of Johann Conrad Sckell , with whom he initially apprenticed.

Duke Carl August sent Sckell on an educational trip between 1801 and 1803 that took him to Holland, England and southern German regions. Sckell's work is certainly inconceivable without Goethe . After his death in 1832, Sckell wrote in his diary for March 22nd, 1832: With the sinking of Weimar's last star, a happy prospect has sunk for me too. Sckell was also involved in the creation of the Hortus Belvedereanus , for which August Wilhelm Dennstedt was responsible, to a certain extent as a colleague with regard to his botanical knowledge . Without the participation of the court gardener, this catalog, the first delivery of which was completed in 1820, would never have been published. The Hortus Belvedereanus is a catalog initiated by Carl August in 1818 of rare plants that are in Belvedere.

Johann Joseph Schmeller had drawn this court gardener and garden inspector from Belvedere in a chalk drawing.

Individual evidence

↑ Goethe manual supplements: Volume 2: Natural sciences edited by Gabriele Busch-Salmen, Manfred Wenzel, Andreas Beyer, Ernst Osterkamp ..., p. 638 f.
↑ Art. Sckell , in: Weimar. Lexicon for the history of the city, ed. by Gitta Günther , Wolfram Huschke and Walter Steiner , Weimar 1998, p. 396.
↑ Reinhard Schau : The Weimar Belvedere. An educational institution between the time of Goethe and the present. Böhlau Verlag, Cologne et al. 2006, p. 49.
↑ Ibid. P. 48.
↑ Art. Sckell , in: Weimar. Lexicon for the history of the city, ed. by Gitta Günther, Wolfram Huschke and Walter Steiner , Weimar 1998, p. 397.

personal data
SURNAME	Sckell, Johann Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German court gardener
DATE OF BIRTH	August 30, 1773
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wilhelmsthal
DATE OF DEATH	September 25, 1857
Place of death	Belvedere

[1] Goethe manual supplements: Volume 2: Natural sciences edited by Gabriele Busch-Salmen, Manfred Wenzel, Andreas Beyer, Ernst Osterkamp ..., p. 638 f.

[2] Art. Sckell , in: Weimar. Lexicon for the history of the city, ed. by Gitta Günther , Wolfram Huschke and Walter Steiner , Weimar 1998, p. 396.

[3] Reinhard Schau : The Weimar Belvedere. An educational institution between the time of Goethe and the present. Böhlau Verlag, Cologne et al. 2006, p. 49.

[4] Ibid. P. 48.

[5] Art. Sckell , in: Weimar. Lexicon for the history of the city, ed. by Gitta Günther, Wolfram Huschke and Walter Steiner , Weimar 1998, p. 397.