Christian Cay Lorenz Hirschfeld was a German Enlightenment gardening theorist, academic in philosophy and art history in the service of Denmark and a writer, notable for several books. He advocated for sensitive Romantic gardens in the English landscape style.
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Christian Cay Lorenz Hirschfeld, copperplate engraving by J. D. Heidenreich (1792)
Hirschfeld's house in Düsternbrook, engraving by Heinrich August Grosch (1790)
Memorial to Hirschfeld in the Seifersdorfer Garten, copperplate engraving by Darnstedt (1792, Ausschnitt)
Plaque in his honour in Kiel
Nursery for fruit trees in Kiel-Düsternbrook, detail of an 1811 plan by W. Beck, Ausschnitt (Landesarchiv Schleswig-Holstein)Academics born in the 1740s 6
About this person
Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1742 to 1792 · aged 50
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