René Dahuron

René Dahuron (* around 1660 in the Sarthe department ; † around 1730 (location unknown)) was a gardener and author during the Baroque period.

Career

Dahuron's origin is unknown. In his book he is committed to Jean-Baptiste de La Quintinie in Versailles , whom he knew personally. It has been speculated that he left France after 1685 for reasons of faith. However, there is evidence that he was Catholic, as he had a daughter baptized on June 9, 1689 in the Clemenskirche in Hanover and in 1717 was godfather to the daughter of the Catholic court painter Antoine Pesne , who also portrayed him.

As early as 1683, before the Edict of Nantes , he prepared an appraisal for the Great Garden in Dresden. From 1688 he created the baroque gardens at Schloss Linden for Franz-Ernst von Platen (today ruins in Von-Alten-Garten in Hanover). In 1690 Dahuron went to Duke Georg Wilhelm in Celle and completed the French Garden there . In 1700 Dahuron became court gardener in the kitchen garden of Schloss Charlottenburg , where he can still be traced back in 1725. Since he was no longer listed among the staff in 1734, it can be assumed that he died before 1734.

In 1692 Dahuron published in Celle a book on fruit tree pruning in French, which he must have written before 1690, as he writes that La Quintinie's teachings have not yet been published. The book was very successfully translated into several languages ​​with at least 17 editions. Dahuron's name is falsely associated with other gardening books, which he did not write, although the publishers put his name on the title page.

Works

• Traité des la taille des arbres & de la maniere de les bien élever , Celle 1692

literature

• General Artist Lexicon , Vol. 23, p. 442
• Eduard Schuster: Art and artists in the principalities of Calenberg and Lüneburg in the period from 1636–1727 , Hanover, 1905, p. 219
• Historical gardens in Lower Saxony , 2000
• Helmut Knocke : Dahuron, René. In: Dirk Böttcher, Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 89 [1]
• Helmut Knocke: Dahuron, René. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 121.
• Wimmer, Clemens Alexander: Dahuron and Pseudo-Dahuron: The story of a fruit tree monograph, a bibliographical detective work, In: Zandera 8 (1993), No. 1, pp. 25-32
• Blanke, Harald: The history of the development of the Great Garden in Dresden. In: The Great Garden of Dresden . Dresden 2001, p. 22
• Prussian green. Court gardener in Brandenburg-Prussia. Berlin 2004, pp. 45f., 306