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

Germany

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 landscape gardener.

Life

Petzold was born in Königswalde (Lubniewice)

Lubniewice

Lubniewice is a town in Sulęcin County, Lubusz Voivodeship, western Poland, with 1,924 inhabitants .-History:The first mentioning of a fortress dates back to the Greater Polish duke Przemysł II in 1287...

, Brandenburg

Province of Brandenburg

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. As a child, he followed his parents in 1826 to Muskau, visiting the town school and in 1828 the grammar school at Halle

Halle, Saxony-Anhalt

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 in Prussian Saxony.

In 1831, he started working at the Park von Muskau of the Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau

Hermann von Pückler-Muskau

Prince was a German nobleman, who was an excellent artist in landscape gardening and wrote widely appreciated books, mostly about his travels in Europe and Northern Africa, published under the pen name of "Semilasso".- Life :He was born at Muskau Castle in Upper Lusatia, then ruled by...

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

Mazancowice

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 (Silesia

Silesia

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

Weimar

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, in 1852-1872 he returned as Parkinspector to Muskau, and was, in 1852-72, Director of Parks of the Netherlands

Netherlands

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He created 174 parks and gardens in Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

, Austria

Austria

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-Hungary

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, the Netherlands

Netherlands

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, Poland

Poland

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, Bulgaria

Bulgaria

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, and Turkey

Turkey

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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.