Friedrich Ludwig von Sckell

His manner of grouping and choice of plants is still used to an extent in German landscaping today.

Sckell was trained in the Court Market Garden in Schwetzingen near Mannheim in the Holy Roman Empire and worked after his apprenticeship in Bruchsal, Paris, and Versailles.

Upon his return, Sckell redesigned the gardens of Schönbusch Park in Aschaffenburg for the Prince-Electors of Mainz and Archbishop Friedrich Karl Joseph von Erthal in the English style, as well as those of Schöntal Park.

In the time following the Englischer Garten, Sckell spent a short time in service of the rulers of Baden, before he was called back in 1803 to Munich, where, as the Director of Royal Gardens, he completed the Englischer Garten.

He died in 1823 in Munich as a Court Garden Director, and was buried in the Alter Südfriedhof there.