Christian Cay Lorenz Hirschfeld

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 Gelehrte Zeitung'' (''erudite newspaper of Kiel'') 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). Provided by Wikipedia