Carl Eduard Adolph Petzold (14 January 1815 – August 1891) was a German

landscape gardener Landscape architecture is the design of outdoor areas, landmarks, and structures to achieve environmental, social-behavioural, or aesthetic outcomes. It involves the systematic design and general engineering of various structures for constructio ...

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Petzold was born in Königswalde (Lubniewice),

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. As a child, he followed his parents in 1826 to

Muskau Bad Muskau (; formerly ''Muskau'', hsb, Mužakow, pl, Mużaków, cs, Mužakov) is a spa town in the historic Upper Lusatia region in Germany, at the border with Poland. It is part of the Görlitz district in the State of Saxony. It is locate ...

, visiting the town's school and in 1828 the grammar school at Halle in

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In 1831, he started working at the

Park von Muskau Muskau Park (german: Muskauer Park, officially: ''Fürst-Pückler-Park Bad Muskau''; pl, Park Mużakowski) is a landscape park in the Upper Lusatia region of Germany and Poland. It is the largest and one of the most famous English gardens in Ce ...

of the Prince

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, who turned out to be of great influence on his later work. 1835-38 he created his first Park at Matzdorf (

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). In 1844-52 he received the position of court gardener in

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, in 1852-1872 he returned as ''Parkinspector'' to

, and was, in 1852-72, Director of Parks of the

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. He created 174 parks and gardens in Germany, Austria-

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, the

, Poland,

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, and

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.For full information see: Michael Rohde, ''Von Muskau bis Konstantinopel'', 1998. He published frequently on his art, as well as biographical studies of other landscape gardeners, especially his study ''Fürst Hermann von Pückler-Muskau in seiner Bedeutung für die bildende Gartenkunst'', of 1874.

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* Michael Rohde: ''Von Muskau bis Konstantinopel. Eduard Petzold ein europäischer Gartenkünstler''

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