Camillo Karl Schneider, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German botanist and landscape architect
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Place of Birth: Wermsdorf, Saxony, Germany
About Camillo Karl Schneider
- Camillo Karl Schneider (7 April 1876 – 5 January 1951) was a German botanist and landscape architect.
- A farmer's son, he was born at Gröppendorf, in the Kingdom of Saxony, and worked as a gardener at Zeitz, Dresden, Berlin and Greifswald.
- Returning to Berlin to work in the City Parks Department, he assisted in editorial work for the periodical Gartenwelt, which led to his employ as a landscape assistant in Darmstadt and Berlin.
- In 1900, he moved to Vienna, where he practiced as a freelance architect and writer, travelling extensively through Europe.
- In 1904 he published his first books, including the beginning of his tome Illustrated Handbook of Broad-leaved Trees, which he completed in 1912.
- However, the manuscript of what should have been his magnum opus, a study of the genus Berberis, was destroyed in a bombing raid on Berlin in 1943.
- In 1913, supported by the Austro-Hungarian Dendrological Society, he ventured to China to collect plants and seeds for the botanical garden at Pruhonitz.
- He left China via Shanghai in 1915, travelling to Boston where he worked at the Arnold Arboretum alongside Sargent, Rehder and Wilson until 1919, when he returned to Vienna.
- Two years later, he moved to Berlin to work on the new periodical Gartenschönheit, which survived until 1942.
- On its demise, he worked for its successor, Gartenbau im Reich, although he also continued to practice as a landscape architect, redesigning gardens and parks in the new reich.
- Impoverished by the consequences of the war, he was obliged to continue working in old age; Schneider's last book Hecken im Garten (Hedges in the Garden) was published in 1950, the year before his death in Berlin.
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