Jacob Bobart
Jacob Bobart may refer to: *Jacob Bobart the Elder (1599–1680), German botanist *Jacob Bobart the Younger Jacob Bobart, the younger, (2 August 1641 – 28 December 1719), was an English botanist. Background Bobart was the younger son of Jacob Bobart. He was born at Oxford, and succeeded his father as superintendent of the Physic Garden, and on the ...

Jacob Bobart The Elder
Jacob Bobart (or Bobert), the Elder (1599–1680) was a German botanist who moved to England to be the first head gardener of Oxford Botanic Garden. Life He was born at Brunswick, and was appointed superintendent of the Oxford Physic Garden (as it then was) after its foundation in 1632 as the first such garden in England by Henry Danvers, 1st Earl of Danby, John Tradescant the Elder having turned down the position. Bobart arrived by 1641. He had the right to sell fruit and vegetables from the garden, which proved a necessity in the circumstances that Danvers died and the English Civil War meant that his estates were sequestrated. He planted many yew trees in pairs.Oxford Botanic Garden
Infobritain.co.uk. Retrieved on 2012-04-05. In 1648 he published an anonymous catalogue, in alphabetical order, of sixteen hundred plants then und ...
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