Johann Gottfried Terscheck

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Johann Gottfried Terscheck (* 1784 in Elsterwerda ; † 1870 ) was a Saxon botanist and co-founder of the Botanical Garden in Dresden . Terscheck belonged to one of the most famous gardening families in Saxony , whose members had a say in the history of horticulture in Saxony for several generations.

Life

Pleasure garden Pillnitz

Terscheck, whose father Johann Matthäus Terscheck was court gardener in the Elsterwerdaer Schlossgarten for thirty years , initially worked as an adjunct in the Dresden Palaisgarten and in the Brühlschen Wallgarten.

Together with Ludwig Reichenbach and his brother Carl Adolph Terscheck , Johann Gottfried Terscheck founded the Botanical Garden on the site of the Mars Bastion of the Dresden city fortress east of the Kurländer Palais in 1820 , which was relocated to the current site on Stübelallee in 1889. Here he was initially an academic and botanical gardener before he took up a position as court gardener at Wallgarten in 1823.

From 1832 to 1865 Terscheck was court gardener in the Pillnitz palace garden , where he was responsible for the redesign of the pleasure garden and the construction of several greenhouses, including the palm house built in 1859.

Works

  • Directory of the perennial plants which can be obtained in the academic-botanical garden in exchange and purchase . Dresden 1825
  • Hortus Regius Pillnitziensis . 1859 (lost plant directory, which documented the collection of over 16,000 plant species in the Pillnitz garden)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mustafa Haikal : The secret of the camellia . Ed .: Palaces and Gardens Dresden, Sandstein Verlag, Dresden 2008, ISBN 978-3-940319-26-5
  2. ↑ Brochure Stadt + Grün - Das Gartenamt . P. 18 ( online as PDF file )

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personal data
SURNAME Terscheck, Johann Gottfried
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Terschek, Johann Gottfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Saxon court gardener
DATE OF BIRTH 1784
PLACE OF BIRTH Elsterwerda
DATE OF DEATH 1870