!!!Schott, Heinrich Wilhelm

Schott, Heinrich Wilhelm, baptised Bruenn (now Brno, Czech Republic) on January 7, 1794, 
d. Vienna, March 5, 1865, botanist. Participated in the Austrian 
expedition to Brazil in 1817-21; court gardener in Vienna from 1828, 
from 1845 director of the Court Gardens and the Imperial ''menagerie; 
''in charge of the improvement of Schoenbrunn Gardens, parts of which 
were laid out in the English garden tradition. Student of Alpine 
flora, created the Belvedere Alpine garden, and enriched the court 
gardens in Vienna by importing plants collected in Brazil.

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Werke: Die Sippen der oesterreichischen Primeln, 1851; Skizzen 
oesterreichischer Ranunkeln, 1852.

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Literatur: Oesterreichisches Biographisches Lexikon



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