Peter Carl Bouché

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Peter Carl Bouché (also Peter Karl Bouché; * July 21, 1783 in Berlin ; † February 27, 1856 in Berlin) was a German gardener , botanist and author of horticultural and botanical writings. Its official botanical author's abbreviation is " Bouché ".

life and work

Peter Carl Bouché was a scion of the Berlin gardening dynasty Bouché . He was a son of Jean David Bouché (1747–1819), the brother of Carl David Bouché (senior) (1782–?) And Peter Friedrich Bouché (1785–1856), and the father of Carl David Bouché (jun.) (1809–1881) and Karl Emil Bouché (1822–1882).

He was a founding member of the Horticultural Society in the Royal Prussian States (1822).

Initially, Peter Carl Bouché acquired a plot of land at Alte Jakobstrasse 3–4 (today 18–19) to set up his own nursery, but later sold it and ran his father's nursery together with his brother Peter Friedrich Bouché. The two brothers introduced numerous well-known indoor and garden plants, such as the rubber tree ( Ficus elastica ), the Japanese camellia ( Camellia japonica ) and the oleander ( Nerium oleander splendens ), into the horticultural culture of Berlin.

In addition to his professional activity, he attended botanical lectures, which were offered in the so-called pharmacist's garden, located near his father's apartment . When Carl Ludwig Willdenow later became its director, Bouché was his closest pupil in botany. He went on many excursions with Willdenow in the Mark Brandenburg and discovered some new plant species there. He was in correspondence with several other contemporary botanists, such as Karl Sigismund Kunth , Diederich von Schlechtendal , Chamisso and others. In particular because of his publications on bulbous plants , he gained reputation in the botanical scientific community. In addition to onion plants, Peter Carl Bouché later specialized in the genus flower cane ( Canna ), of which he owned a collection of 120 species that was unique in Europe and several of which he described for the first time. He was the first to use Canna outdoors for summer planting.

In 1827 he gave up his participation in the gardening business after he was appointed institute gardener in Schöneberg near Berlin by the founders of the Royal Gardening School at the Wildlife Park near Potsdam . Under institute director Christoph Friedrich Otto , he not only looked after the institute garden for 26 years, but also carried out the basic practical training of the prospective gardeners as a teacher before they moved to Potsdam for further theoretical training. The Schöneberg department was closed in 1853, and Peter Carl Bouché retired at the age of 70. Later his sons also taught at the gardening school.

Dedication names

After the brothers Peter Carl and Peter Friedrich Bouché named Chamissoplatz the genus Bouchea from the plant family of the iron herb plants . Kunth gave Mygalum bouchéanum (today Ornithogalum bouchéanum , Green Milky Star ) its name in 1842 after Peter Carl Bouché, Schlechtendal 1832 Gladiolus bouchéanus (today Gladiolus palustris Gaud. ).

Fonts

  • About the culture of the bulbous plants , 1837. The book bears the author's designation "DCP Bouché", but [according to Wimmer] it can be clearly assigned to Peter Carl Bouché.
  • Carl Paul Bouché: The room and window garden , 1st edition 1808; from the 2nd edition 1811 supplemented by instructions on forcing flowers and for treating the plants occurring in this work in an orderly manner for every month. ; 3rd edition 1817; 5th ed. 1821; 6th edition again increased by an appendix: considerations about the city garden or instructions for the possible use of the spaces behind and between buildings in cities , Berlin: Nauck, 1833. Note: According to the information in the book itself, this comes from the first half of the 19th century Widespread work (at that time the only one of its kind, a total of 8 editions, even a Swedish translation: “Fönster-Trädgården”) by “ CP Bouché ”, but due to identical life dates, Jean David Bouché is sometimes also assumed to be the true author. Peter Carl Bouché is only the editor of the extended later editions (his name is noted from the 2nd edition).
  • seven articles in the botanical journal Linnaea published by Schlechtendal , some in Latin.
  • He also wrote treatises on Canna in 1833 and 1844, but died before he had published all of his knowledge.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names . Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2018. [1]

literature

  • Clemens Alexander Wimmer: The Berlin gardener family Bouché 1740-1933 , in: Erika Schmidt (Ed.): Garden - Art - History. Festschrift for Dieter Hennebo on his 70th birthday . Worms am Rhein: Werner, 1994, pp. 44-52, ISBN 3-88462-107-6

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personal data
SURNAME Bouché, Peter Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bouché, Peter Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German gardener and botanist
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1783
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH February 27, 1856
Place of death Berlin