Johann Hermann Zigra
Johann Hermann Zigra , Latvian Cigra , (born July 19, 1775 in Lübeck , † January 5, 1857 in Riga ) was a German gardener, horticulturist and botanist. Its official botanical author's abbreviation is " Zigra ".
Life
Johann Herman Zigra was the son of the Lübeck businessman Johann Zigra and his wife Christina Elisabeth born. Cordua. The Lübeck naturalist and doctor Johann Julius Walbaum was his uncle and assumed the role of father after the death of his parents. The pharmacist Johann Gotthard Zigra was his older brother.
After attending school, Zigra completed an apprenticeship as a gardener with Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart and Johann Christoph Wendland in the Herrenhausen Gardens . He then worked for two years in the Netherlands and went on study trips through Germany.
Together with his brother, he sailed to Riga in 1795, where he worked as a gardener for councilor Johann Heinrich Hollander from 1796 to 1798. He founded a market gardening company in Riga in 1798 and became a citizen of the city in 1,800. He expanded his activities to include a warehouse for factory goods and became a commission agent for the Imperial Russian factories in Riga. He experienced setbacks due to a flood in 1807 and the fire caused by the French in the suburbs of Riga during the Russian campaign in 1812 . The avenues in Wöhrmann's garden in Riga were created by him in 1817. In 1823 he planned the design of the Great Cemetery in Riga.
Zigra traveled to Russia as far as the Urals . He was active as a horticultural theorist and gardener on a large scale with numerous publications. His writings on fruit and vegetable growing, gardens and forestry were translated from German into Polish, Russian, Latvian and Estonian.
After his death, the heirs of his brother Johann Gotthard established the Johann Hermann Zigra Foundation in Riga in memory of him , which was administered by the Natural Research Association in Riga.
Memberships
- 1821: Corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences
- Economic Society of St. Petersburg
- Horticultural Society, Berlin
- Imperial natural research society in Moscow
- Botanical Society, Havana
- Honorary member of the Livonian Charitable and Social Society
Honors
- 1806 Russian Gold Medal for Usefulness
- 1818 Russian bronze commemorative medal 1812
- 1834 hereditary honorary citizen of Riga
- 1847 Russian Order of Saint Anne 3rd class
literature
- Christian Ziegra : Historical news and genealogical tables from the Ziegraischen Geschlechte / collected and ... published by M. Christian Ziegra, Canon. min. , Schröder, Hamburg 1777
- Johann Friedrich von Recke , Theodor Beise , Karl Eduard Napiersky : General Lexicon of Writers and Scholars of the Provinces of Livonia , Volume 4, JF Steffenhagen and Son, 1832, p. 591 (digitized version) with a detailed list of publications
- Johann Hermann Zigra, a picture of a charitable bourgeois life, in: Das Inland : A weekly for the daily history of Liv, Esth and Courland No. 11 (1857) from March 18, 1857 columns 173-182 (digitized)
Web links
- Baltic Historical Commission (Ed.): Entry on Johann Hermann Zigra. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zigra, Johann Hermann |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cigra, Johann Hermann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German gardener, horticultural entrepreneur and botanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 19, 1775 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lübeck |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 5, 1857 |
| Place of death | Riga |