Camillo Karl Schneider (7 April 1876 – 5 January 1951) was a German botanist and landscape architect. A farmer's son, he was born at
Gröppendorf, in the
Kingdom of Saxony, and worked as a gardener at
Zeitz,
Dresden,
Berlin and
Greifswald. Returning to Berlin to work in the City Parks Department, he assisted in editorial work for the periodical ''Gartenwelt'', which led to his employ as a landscape assistant in
Darmstadt
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and Berlin. In 1900, he moved to
Vienna, where he practiced as a freelance architect and writer, travelling extensively through Europe. In 1904 he published his first books, including the beginning of his tome ''Illustrated Handbook of Broad-leaved Trees'', which he completed in 1912. However, the manuscript of what should have been his ''
magnum opus'', a study of the genus ''
Berberis'', was destroyed in a bombing raid on Berlin in 1943.
In 1913, supported by the Austro-Hungarian Dendrological Society, he ventured to China to collect plants and seeds for the botanical garden at
Pruhonitz. He left China via
Shanghai in 1915, travelling to
Boston where he worked at the
Arnold Arboretum
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alongside
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until 1919, when he returned to Vienna. Two years later, he moved to Berlin to work on the new periodical ''Gartenschönheit'', which survived until 1942. On its demise, he worked for its successor, ''Gartenbau im Reich'', although he also continued to practice as a landscape architect, redesigning gardens and parks in the new reich. Impoverished by the consequences of the war, he was obliged to continue working in old age; Schneider's last book ''Hecken im Garten'' (''Hedges in the Garden'') was published in 1950, the year before his death in Berlin.
His brother was Karl Camillo Schneider (born 28 August 1867 in
Pomßen, Germany; † March 1943 in
Oleśnica, Poland), who was a German-Austrian zoologist, philosopher, writer, parapsychologist and painter. He was in correspondence with
Albert Einstein.
[Albert Einstein: The collected papers of Albert Einstein . Ed .: Joh J. Stachel et al. Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton, NJ 1987, pp. 496, 676]
Works
* Schneider, C. K. 1905. ''Illustriertes Handbuch der Laubholzkunde. Charakteristik der in Mitteleuropa heimischen im Freien angepflanzten angiospermen Gehölz-Arten und Formen mit Ausschluss der Bambuseen und Kakteen''. Verlag von Gustav Fischer, Jena. Volume 1, pp 493–494 https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/5886
* Schneider, C. K. 1905.
Die Gattung "Berberis". Vorarbeiten für eine Monographie.' // Bull.Herb.Boissier.Sér.2. Genève. Vol. v. p. 33 sq
References
*Stearn, W. T. (1951). ''Gardeners Chronicle'', 1951, 129, 32.
1876 births
1951 deaths
People from Wermsdorf
People from the Kingdom of Saxony
20th-century German botanists
German landscape architects
Botanists active in China
Botanists with author abbreviations
Arnold Arboretum
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