Johann Christoph Wendland Explained
Johann Christoph Wendland (July 17, 1755 - July 27, 1828) was a German botanist and gardener born in Petit-Landau, Alsace.
Family
His son, Heinrich Ludolph Wendland (1791 - 1869), and his grandson, Hermann Wendland (1825 - 1903), were also gardeners and botanists.
Youth
As a young man he received an education in horticulture at the nursery of Karlsruhe Palace. In 1780 he became a gardener at Herrenhausen Gardens in Hanover, where he gained botanical experience from Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart (1742 - 1795), the director of the gardens.
Life work
In 1817 Wendland was appointed inspector at Herrenhausen Gardens.[1] He specialized in the culture of vineyards and peach trees. He created the illustrations for his published works. As a taxonomist, he circumscribed numerous plant genera and species.[2]
Selected publications
- Hortus Herrenhusanus, 1788-1801
- Verzeichnis der Glas- und Treibhauspflanzen des Königlichen Berggartens zu Herrenhausen (List of glass and greenhouse plants of the Herrenhausen Gardens), 1797
- Botanische Beobachtungen nebst einigen neuen Gattungen und Arten (Botanical observations, including some new genera and species), 1798
- Ericarum icones et descriptiones; (26 issues)- 1798-1823
- Collectio plantarum tam exoticarum quam indigenarum; (three volumes until 1819).
Notes and References
- https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33066522#page/242/mode/1up BHL
- http://www.ipni.org/ipni/advPlantNameSearch.do?find_infragenus=&find_isAPNIRecord=true&find_geoUnit=&find_includePublicationAuthors=true&find_addedSince=&find_family=&find_genus=&find_sortByFamily=true&find_isGCIRecord=true&find_infrafamily=&find_rankToReturn=all&find_publicationTitle=&find_authorAbbrev=J.C.Wendl.&find_infraspecies=&find_includeBasionymAuthors=true&find_modifiedSince=&find_isIKRecord=true&find_species=&output_format=normal&chunk_size=100&start_row=200 IPNI
