Botanischer Garten Jena
Jena’s botanical garden traces its origins to a medicinal garden founded near the Collegium Jenense in 1586 for medical and pharmaceutical teaching and research. August Johann Georg Karl Batsch became the scientific botanical garden’s first director in 1794. The Alpinum was laid out in 1953.
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Jena’s botanical garden traces its origins to a medicinal garden founded near the Collegium Jenense in 1586 for medical and pharmaceutical teaching and research. August Johann Georg Karl Batsch became the scientific botanical garden’s first director in 1794. The Alpinum was laid out in 1953.
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Editorial reading
Editorial interpretation: The sequence from medicinal teaching garden to scientific institution offers a way to read Jena through changing botanical purposes. The later Alpinum adds a separate chapter rather than reducing the garden to a single founding moment.
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Source record: Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena — botanical garden history
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