Johannes Böttner (September 3, 1861 – April 28, 1919) was a German

horticulturist Horticulture is the branch of agriculture that deals with the art, science, technology, and business of plant cultivation. It includes the cultivation of fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, herbs, sprouts, mushrooms, algae, flowers, seaweeds and no ...

. He was born in

Greußen Greußen is a town in the Kyffhäuserkreis district, in Thuringia, Germany. It is situated 17 km southeast of Sondershausen, and 29 km north of Erfurt Erfurt () is the capital and largest city in the Central German state of Thur ...

Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe ...

and died in

Frankfurt an der Oder Frankfurt (Oder), also known as Frankfurt an der Oder (), is a city in the German state of Brandenburg. It has around 57,000 inhabitants, is one of the easternmost cities in Germany, the fourth-largest city in Brandenburg, and the largest German ...

. He created new

cultivars A cultivar is a type of Horticulture, cultivated plant that people have selected for desired phenotypic trait, traits and when Plant propagation, propagated retain those traits. Methods used to propagate cultivars include: division, root and st ...

rose A rose is either a woody perennial flowering plant of the genus ''Rosa'' (), in the family Rosaceae (), or the flower it bears. There are over three hundred species and tens of thousands of cultivars. They form a group of plants that can be ...

s and

vegetable Vegetables are parts of plants that are consumed by humans or other animals as food. The original meaning is still commonly used and is applied to plants collectively to refer to all edible plant matter, including the flowers, fruits, stems, ...

asparagus Asparagus, or garden asparagus, folk name sparrow grass, scientific name ''Asparagus officinalis'', is a perennial flowering plant species in the genus ''Asparagus''. Its young shoots are used as a spring vegetable. It was once classified in ...

strawberries The garden strawberry (or simply strawberry; ''Fragaria × ananassa'') is a widely grown hybrid species of the genus '' Fragaria'', collectively known as the strawberries, which are cultivated worldwide for their fruit. The fruit is widely ap ...

and

rhubarb Rhubarb is the fleshy, edible stalks ( petioles) of species and hybrids (culinary rhubarb) of ''Rheum'' in the family Polygonaceae, which are cooked and used for food. The whole plant – a herbaceous perennial growing from short, thick rhizo ...

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Bibliography

* Möllers Deutsche Gärtnerzeitung 24 (1910) * Böttner, Johannes: Tomatenbuch. Frankfurt 1910 . * Robert Zander: Geschichte des Gärtnertums. Stuttgart 1952 * Gröning, Gert ; Wolschke-Bulmahn, Joachim: Grüne Biographien. Berlin .a. 1997 * Wimmer, Clemens Alexander: Johannes Böttner, in: Gartenkultur in Brandenburg und Berlin. Potsdam 2000, * Gerber, Theophil: Persönlichkeiten aus Land- und Forstwirtschaft, Gartenbau und Veterinärmedizin Bd. 1. Berlin 2004, S. 82 * Estate in the

Brandenburgisches Landeshauptarchiv The Brandenburgisches Landeshauptarchiv (Brandenburgian State Main Archive; acronym BLHA) is the central state archive for the State (Land) of Brandenburg. It is located in Potsdam. Records cover the Land of Brandenburg and its predecessors, back ...

in Potsdam

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German horticulturists Rose breeders German gardeners 1861 births 1919 deaths {{Germany-botanist-stub