Heinrich Wendland

Heinrich Ludolph Wendland ( born April 29, 1791 in Lord Hausen, † July 15, 1869 in Teplitz ) was a German botanist and horticulturist. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " HL Wendl. ".

Biography

Wendland was the son of garden inspector Johann Christoph Wendland in Mr. Hausen.

Wendland made ​​in the years 1811 to 1814 initially a botanical teaching in Vienna and then worked from 1815 to 1816 in the Kew Gardens in London before it at the Georg- August-Universität Göttingen studied biology in the period from 1816 to 1819 and member of the Corps Hannovera Göttingen. Shortly before his father's death he became garden in 1827 Master of the Royal Gardens. In 1850 he took over under the Lord Marshal Carl Ernst von Malortie the managing authority of the Royal Court Garden inspector.

Occasion of the construction of the jobs created by Georg Ludwig Friedrich Laves and Hofbauinspektor Georg Heinrich Schuster Welfenmausoleums Wendland was responsible for the expansion of the mountain garden in its final dimensions and the Georgen- Garden, the Palm House as well as the oak grove around the mausoleum.

Scientifically he described some acacia species such as willow leaf - acacia.

The scale of it taking into account the descriptions of his father mansions herbarium located at the instigation of Prince Ernst August of Hanover IV as a gift of the House of Hanover in possession of the Georg-August -Universität Göttingen.

His son Hermann Wendland was the third generation also Hofgärtner in Mr. Hausen. The archival legacy of Hofgärtnerfamilie Wendland is located in the Royal Garden Library Lord Hausen.

Ehrentaxon

He was the genus Wendlandia Bartl honor. ex DC. the plant family of Rubiaceae ( Rubiaceae ) named.

Works

  • Travel Report 1820 manuscript ( digitized )
  • Commentatio de Acacias aphyllii, 1820.
  • Heinrich Ludolph Wendland / Friedrich Gottlieb Bartling: Contributions to Botany, Göttingen 1824
  • Expenditures and work of the new plant at the mausoleum, Diary
  • Report about the new facility at the Mausoleum
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