Carl Eduard Adolph Petzold (14 January 1815 – August 1891) was a German

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Petzold was born in Königswalde (Lubniewice),

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. As a child, he followed his parents in 1826 to Muskau, visiting the town's school and in 1828 the grammar school at Halle in Prussian Saxony. In 1831, he started working at the Park von Muskau of the Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau, who turned out to be of great influence on his later work. 1835-38 he created his first Park at Matzdorf (

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). In 1844-52 he received the position of court gardener in

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, in 1852-1872 he returned as ''Parkinspector'' to Muskau, and was, in 1852-72, Director of Parks of the

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. He created 174 parks and gardens in Germany, Austria-

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, the

, Poland,

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, and

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.For full information see: Michael Rohde, ''Von Muskau bis Konstantinopel'', 1998. He published frequently on his art, as well as biographical studies of other landscape gardeners, especially his study ''Fürst Hermann von Pückler-Muskau in seiner Bedeutung für die bildende Gartenkunst'', of 1874.

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* Michael Rohde: ''Von Muskau bis Konstantinopel. Eduard Petzold ein europäischer Gartenkünstler'' n German Dresden: Verlag der Kunst, 1998, . {{DEFAULTSORT:Petzold, Eduard 1815 births 1891 deaths People from Sulęcin County German gardeners German landscape architects People from the Province of Brandenburg German male writers People from Bad Muskau Painters from the Kingdom of Prussia

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