Johann Christoph Wendland (July 17, 1755 – July 27, 1828) was a German

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and gardener born in

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Family

His son, Heinrich Ludolph Wendland (1791–1869), and his grandson, Hermann Wendland (1825–1903), were also gardeners and botanists.

Youth

As a young man he received an education in horticulture at the nursery of Karlsruhe Palace. In 1780 he became a gardener at Herrenhausen Gardens in Hanover, where he gained botanical experience from Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart (1742–1795), the director of the gardens.

Life work

In 1817 Wendland was appointed inspector at Herrenhausen Gardens. He specialized in the culture of vineyards and peach trees. He created the illustrations for his published works. As a taxonomist, he circumscribed numerous plant genera and species.IPNI
List of plants described and co-described by Wendland.

Selected publications

* ''Hortus Herrenhusanus'', 1788-1801 * ''Verzeichnis der Glas- und Treibhauspflanzen des Königlichen Berggartens zu Herrenhausen'' (List of glass and

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plants of the Herrenhausen Gardens), 1797 * ''Botanische Beobachtungen nebst einigen neuen Gattungen und Arten'' (Botanical observations, including some new genera and species), 1798 * ''Ericarum icones et descriptiones''; (26 issues)- 1798-1823 * ''Collectio plantarum tam exoticarum quam indigenarum''; (three volumes until 1819).

References

* ''This article is based on a translation of text from an equivalent article at the German Wikipedia.'' 1755 births 1828 deaths People from Haut-Rhin 19th-century German botanists German gardeners 18th-century German botanists {{Germany-botanist-stub