About Friedrich Adolph Haage
Lived 1796 – 1866 (aged 70). Friedrich Adolph Haage was a German botanist, gardener and botany.
Friedrich Adolph Haage (24 March 1796 in Erfurt – 20 September 1866 in Erfurt) was a German gardener and botanist.
Life and work Haage was the son of Johann Nikolaus Haage and Catharina Barbara Nehrlich. He learned gardening from Johann Heinrich Seidel (1744–1815), the gardener of Frederick Augustus II of Saxony. After finishing his hiking years, he returned to Erfurt. Here he acquired a small plot of land and founded a nursery in 1822. The first seed catalog of his nursery was made in 1824. It is now lost.
Haage had one of the largest collections of cacti at his time.
He was co-founder of the Erfurter Gartenbauvereins (Erfurt Horticultural Association) and later became its director. Erfurt erected a monument of him.
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German botanist and gardener (1796-1866)
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Friedrich Adolph Haage was born on 24 March 1796 in Erfurt.
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Friedrich Adolph Haage died on 20 September 1866 in Erfurt.
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Friedrich Adolph Haage was a botanist, gardener and botany.
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Friedrich Adolph Haage was German.
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