Karl August Christian Sckell
Karl August Christian Sckell , spelling also: Carl August Christian Sckell (born February 4, 1801 in Belvedere near Weimar ; † 1874 in Dornburg / Saale ) was a German gardener from the Sckell family , son of the garden inspector in the Belvedere Johann Conrad Sckell .
After a job at the Jena Botanical Garden , Karl August Christian Sckell was court gardener and castellan of the Dornburg palaces from 1823 . Like his father, he was in contact with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , who was interested in botanical and garden design issues and recorded the contents of many conversations with Sckell's father in diary notes. The memoirs of Karl August Christian Sckell, first published in 1864, give anecdotes, but also interesting impressions of Goethe's life in Dornburg (Goethe lived in the Dornburg Renaissance Palace from July 7 to September 11, 1828 after the death of Grand Duke Carl August and wrote his Dornburg poems ).
literature
- Karl August Christian Sckell: Goethe in Dornburg. What has been seen, heard and experienced . Jena and Leipzig: Hermann Costenoble , 1864 (Reprint: Leipzig: JJ Weber , 1924)
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| SURNAME | Sckell, Karl August Christian |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sckell, Carl August Christian; Skell, Carl August Christian |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German court gardener |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 4, 1801 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Belvedere near Weimar |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1874 |
| Place of death | Dornburg / Saale |