Johann Nicolaus Haage (gardener, 1826)

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Johann Nicolaus Haage (born February 13, 1826 - † August 9, 1878 near Mürren ) was a German art and trade gardener and co-owner of the Erfurt seed and plant shop Haage & Schmidt . Its official botanical author abbreviation is " JNHaage ".

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Title page of the first main directory on seeds and plants published by Johann Nicolaus Haage from 1861.

Johann Nicolaus Haage was the youngest son of Johann Heinrich Haage the Younger (1778-1826) and his second wife Christiana Nettwald. His mother worked as a food dealer in the Neue Gasse in Erfurt. His siblings were Katharina Elisabeth (1810–1873), Maria Magdalena (1811–?); Regina Christina (1813–1813), Johann Michael (1814–1817), Johann Heinrich Elias (1816–1817), Johann August Heinrich (1818–1824), Conrad Christian (1820–1850), Christian Michael (1822–1822) and Carl August (1824–?) And the brothers Johann Zacharias (1803–1861) and August Wilhelm (1805–1810), who came from their first marriage to Anna Magdalena Kayser, the daughter of master brewer Johann Zacharias.

In 1839 he began an apprenticeship with his second cousin Friedrich Adolph Haage in his commercial and seed nursery Friedrich Adolph Haage junior. In 1844 Haage went to England and initially worked at the Hugh Low (1793-1863) Clapton Nurseries in Clapton, now part of the London Borough of Hackney . He then moved to Edinburgh where he worked for seven years in the seed and horticultural company Peter Lawson & Son , headed by Charles Lawson (1794–1873), mainly in the seed business. In 1852 Haage returned to the company of his cousin Friedrich Adolph Haage and acted as managing director.

In 1861 Haage went into business for himself and in the same year published his first main directory on seeds and plants . On August 1, 1862 it was announced that his company and the Erfurt seed and plant shop of Johann Christoph Schmidt (1803–1868) would continue their business under the common name Haage & Schmidt . Johann Christoph Schmidt's eldest son Ernst Schmidt (1834–1902) became the second owner besides Haage. The headquarters of the company Haage & Schmidt was located at Erfurt Schlösserstraße 17. On July 1, 1864, the actual commercial gardening company was founded outside the city of Erfurt on the former Kersplebener Chaussee. Haage was responsible for the seed business and Schmidt supervised the plant cultures. Ten years after the company was founded, the main directory on seeds and plants already comprised around 16,000 items.

Johann Nicolaus Haage had an accident on August 9, 1878 on an excursion near Mürren in the Bernese Oberland .

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literature

  • Ilsabe Schalldach: The Haage family. 325 years of horticultural history . In: Martin Baumann, Steffen Raßloff (eds.): City of flowers Erfurt. Waid - Horticulture - iga / egapark . Sutton Verlag, Erfurt 2011, ISBN 978-3-86680-812-6 , pp. 74-107.
  • M. Schneider: On the 50th anniversary of the Haage & Schmidt company, Erfurt . In: The garden world . Volume 16, Number 29, July 20, 1912, pp. 393-395 (online) .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Weekly of the Association for the Promotion of Horticulture . Volume 5, 1862, p. 264 (online) .
  2. ↑ German magazine for garden and flower knowledge . Volume 31, Stuttgart 1878, pp. 278-279 (online) .
  3. ↑ Pomological monthly books . Volume 24, Stuttgart 1878, p. 351.

further reading

  • Ilsabe Schalldach, Clemens Alexander Wimmer: The Erfurt commercial nursery Haage & Schmidt and their catalogs . In: Zandera . Volume 27, No. 2, 2012, pp. 78-87.

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personal data
SURNAME Haage, Johann Nicolaus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Haage IV., Johann Nicolaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art and trade gardener
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1826
DATE OF DEATH August 9, 1878
Place of death at Murren