Édouard André

Édouard François André ( born July 17, 1840 in Bourges, France, † October 25, 1911 in La Croix, France) was a French gardeners, landscapers and botanists. He is regarded as one of the leading gardeners and garden designers of the 19th century. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " André ".

Life

André grew up in Angers (France), the son of a gardener, and developed as a very early age a strong sense of plants. After national d' histoire naturelle spent at the Muséum in Paris a year he was in 1860 at the age of 20 years for senior gardeners ( Jardinier principal) of the city of Paris appointed, a position he held until 1868. During this time, he designed many of the public facilities, parks and boulevards and significantly shaped the modern cityscape with facilities such as the Parc des Buttes -Chaumont, in which also participated Gustave Eiffel. After he had made himself a name as a garden architect, he won an international tender for the design of Sefton Park in Liverpool (England ), a project on which he worked for five years in 1866. He designed numerous other parks in Europe in Russia, Austria, the Netherlands, Denmark, and Switzerland. The most famous are the Holy Ghost Citadel in Luxembourg with its terraced gardens and promenades, gardens of Funchal in Madeira, Villa Borghese in Italy and the public parks of Monte Carlo. Together with his son André designed from 1895 to 1897 the park at the same time built in Neo-Renaissance style according to the plans of the German architect Franz Heinrich Schwechten palace of Count Feliks Tyszkiewicz in the Lithuanian seaside resort Palanga; the park is now a botanical garden in the Palais the Palanga Amber Museum is housed.

Even as a botanist and gardener André was very active and came mainly in the field of exploration of the bromeliads to reputation. 1875, the French government sent him on an exploratory expedition to the northern Andes of South America. In addition to Colombia was his main goal Ecuador. From this trip he brought over 3,400 plants with back, underneath was a small, narrow-leaved Tillandsia, 1888, published in honor of him as Tillandsia andreana Edouard Morren. His travelogue was reprinted in 1983.

After his return he devoted himself entirely to the study of plants. He entertained an experimental nursery in his country house and wrote several monographs specifically about bromeliads. From 1870 to 1880 he was editor of the Revue HORTICOLE and wrote many articles for L' Illustration HORTICOLE. 1890 brought him his last Latin American trip to Uruguay.

1892 professor of horticulture and landscaping at the Ecole Nationale d' Horticulture ( National Horticultural high school), he was in honor decorated in Versailles and he appointed the first professor. Distinguished as an officer of the French Legion of Honour and of the Belgian Order of Leopold, he was also a member of the Royal Horticultural Society of London.

Ehrentaxon

According to him Mez named 1896 Bromeliad genus Andrea with the following words:

" Dicatum cl Éd. André, Parisiensi, bromeliographo sagacissimo. "

" Dedicated to the illustrious and wisest of all the authors of the bromeliads, Édouard André from Paris"

The genus Andrea was initially assigned to the genus Nidularium and has today been drawn to Canistropsis.

Writings

• Bromeliaceae Andreanae. Description et Histoire des Bromeliacees, récoltées dans la Colombie, l' et la Ecuador Venezuela. Paris:. Librairie Agricole, 1889 Reprint: Berkley CA, USA: Big Bridge Press, 1983
• L' art des jardins: traité général de la composition des parcs et jardins. Paris: Masson, 1879 reprint. Marseille: Lafitte Reprints, 1983, ISBN 2-7348-0127-2