Otto von Münchhausen

Otto II Baron Munchausen ( born June 11, 1716 in Schwöbber in Hameln, † July 13, 1774 in Kalenberg ) was a German botanist. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Münchh. "

Life

Otto von Munchausen studied at the University of Göttingen; later he was Landdrost in Stemberg and Harburg.

He created in 1750 an eight -hectare English landscape park in Schwöbber (see Castle Schwöbber ). He converted the existing castle park of 1700 into a landscape park to the English model. The landscaped park is considered one of the earliest of its kind in continental Europe. The baron was well aware that the concept of the English landscape park was not to be transferred unchanged for German conditions:

"You can create princely gardens on the type of English park; wanted but if we follow the German nobles to them and make our goods to parks, so we would have to have to raise many thousands of pounds of our plantations in the West Indies. "

His six-volume, 1764 to 1773 created work The householder is a horticultural - agricultural textbook. It contains a then highly regarded collection of tips for agriculture as general wisdom. Works of this kind were later called Hausväterliteratur.

The plant genus Munchausia L. has been named after him, the name is, however, only used as a synonym of the valid genus name Lagerstroemia L..