page_title: Christian Cay Lorenz Hirschfeld
hierarchical_section_title: Christian Cay Lorenz Hirschfeld
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Wohnhaus von Christian Cay Lorenz Hirschfeld bei der "Fruchtbaumschule" in Duesternbrook bei Kiel. Radierung aus der Serie "Holsteins schönste Gegenden, Kopenhagen 1790ff, 24,6 x 19,8 cm
context_page_description: 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.
  He published numerous articles in magazines and edited the Kielische Geleher Zeitung from 1771 to 1778. He had his works illustrated with copperplate engravings based on drawings by artists such as Brandt, Weinlig, Schuricht and Zingg, often engraved by Christian Gottlieb Geyser. Hirschfeld idea of Gartenkalenders was later taken up by Wilhelm Gottlieb Becker in his Taschenbuch für Gartenfreunde.
context_section_description: Christian Cay Lorenz Hirschfeld (16 February 1742 - 20 February 1792) 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.
  He published numerous articles in magazines (Nova acta eruditorum) and edited the Kielische Geleher Zeitung from 1771 to 1778. He had his works illustrated with copperplate engravings based on drawings by artists such as Brandt, Weinlig, Schuricht and Zingg, often engraved by Christian Gottlieb Geyser. Hirschfeld idea of Gartenkalenders was later taken up by Wilhelm Gottlieb Becker in his Taschenbuch für Gartenfreunde (1795–1799).
caption: Hirschfeld's house in Düsternbrook, engraving by Heinrich August Grosch (1790)
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