Ferdinand Jühlke

Ferdinand Jühlke (1815 to 1893) was a Prussian, after 1871 German, horticulturist who devoted much of his career to teaching and wrote influential books on gardens and garden design. Born in Barth in Pomerania, he trained at the Greifswald Botanic Garden and in 1834 became academic gardener at the Royal Agricultural Academy Eldena, where he built up a botanic garden and a pomology academy, ran plant breeding trials and in 1846 took the new chair in horticulture. In 1856 he published the first scientific description of the Pommerscher Krummstiel apple. After running a nursery in Erfurt from 1858, he became in 1866 director of the Garden of the Royal Court, successor to Peter Joseph Lenné, responsible for the royal gardens of Prussia and for the Royal Horticultural College at Potsdam. He retired in 1891 and died at Potsdam.