Johann Heinrich Gustav Meyer

Johann Heinrich Gustav Meyer (14 January 1816, Frauendorf - 27 May 1877, Berlin) often just referred to as Gustav Meyer, was a German landscape architect and garden historian.

He also wrote a gardens manual Lehrbuch der schönen Gartenkunst: mit besonderer Rücksicht auf die praktische Ausführung von Gärten und Parkanlagen (1873) which included a historical view on gardening styles from Arabia, China, England, Italy, France and Holland.

Meyer trained at the Royal Gardening School in Potsdam under Peter Joseph Lenné and others.

His work included the design of Treptower Park and Humboldthain in which he used Humboldt's idea of using vegetation from different parts of the world.

[1] He died in 1877 and is buried at Saarmunderstraße, now Heinrich-Mann-Allee 25, in Potsdam.