Johann Christoph Wendland (July 17, 1755 - July 27, 1828) was a German botanist and gardener who was a native of Petit-Landau

Petit-Landau

Petit-Landau is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department in Alsace in north-eastern France.It lies along the Grand Canal d'Alsace.-References:*...

, Alsace

Alsace

Alsace is the fifth-smallest of the 27 regions of France in land area , and the smallest in metropolitan France. It is also the seventh-most densely populated region in France and third most densely populated region in metropolitan France, with ca. 220 inhabitants per km²...

. His son- Heinrich Ludolph Wendland

Heinrich Wendland

Heinrich Ludolph Wendland was a botanist who authored a number of Acacia species....

 (1791-1869) and his grandson- Hermann Wendland

Hermann Wendland

Hermann Wendland was a German botanist and gardener.He was a noted authority on the family Arecaceae , on which he published a major monograph which formed the basis for the modern classification of the family, including many of the generic names currently in use.The South American palm genus...

 (1825-1903) were also gardeners and botanists.

As a young man he received an education in horticulture

Horticulture

Horticulture is the industry and science of plant cultivation including the process of preparing soil for the planting of seeds, tubers, or cuttings. Horticulturists work and conduct research in the disciplines of plant propagation and cultivation, crop production, plant breeding and genetic...

 at the nursery of Karlsruhe Palace

Karlsruhe Palace

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. In 1780 he became a gardener at Herrenhausen Gardens

Herrenhausen Gardens

The Herrenhausen Gardens , located in Lower Saxony's capital of Hanover are made up of the Great Garden , the Berggarten, the Georgengarten and the Welfengarten. The gardens are a heritage of the Kings of Hanover.The Great Garden has always been one of the most distinguished baroque formal gardens...

 in Hanover

Hanover

Hanover or Hannover, on the river Leine, is the capital of the federal state of Lower Saxony , Germany and was once by personal union the family seat of the Hanoverian Kings of Great Britain, under their title as the dukes of Brunswick-Lüneburg...

, where he gained botanical experience from Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart

Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart

Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart was a German botanist, a pupil of Carolus Linnaeus at Uppsala University, and later Director of the Botanical Garden of Hannover, where he produced several major botanical works between 1780–1793...

 (1742-1795), who was director of the gardens.

In 1817 Wendland was appointed inspector at Herrenhausen Gardens. He specialized in the culture of vineyard

Vineyard

A vineyard is a plantation of grape-bearing vines, grown mainly for winemaking, but also raisins, table grapes and non-alcoholic grape juice...

s and peach

Peach

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trees, and also created the illustrations in his published works.

Selected publications

• Hortus Herrenhusanus, 1788-1801
• Verzeichnis der Glas- und Treibhauspflanzen des Königlichen Berggartens zu Herrenhausen (List of Glass and Greenhouse 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; 3 volumes until 1819.