Carl Theodor Schulz, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Norwegian horticulturist
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Place of Birth: Berlin
About Carl Theodor Schulz
- Carl Theodor Schulz (5 April 1835 – 16 August 1914) was a Norwegian gardener. He was born in Berlin, Germany, the son of Christian Schulz, a tailor.
- In the 1850s the young Schulz worked at some market gardens in Berlin and its edge city Potsdam; he was employed at a botanical garden in Hamburg in the subsequent decade.
- In March 1865, after five years of work in Hamburg, he was hired at the University Botanical Garden in Oslo.
- He was appointed head gardener in 1893, succeeding the deceased Nils Green.
- Schulz stayed in that position until his death.
- In 1895 he released the work Om botaniske haver.Schulz was a founding member of the Christiania Gardener Association and the Norwegian Horticulture Society; he was the first chairman of the former, and vice-chairman of the latter organisation.
- From 1892 to 1902, he sat on the board of the Horticulture Society.The person who recruited Schulz to Norway was Frederik Schübeler.
- Schulz married an adopted daughter of Schübeler's, Ingeborg Strengberg (1853–1918), in February 1875 in Østre Aker.
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