Marie-Luise Gothein

Marie-Luise Gothein (12 September 1863 – 24 December 1931) was a Prussian scholar, gardener and author.

Gothein was born Marie Luise Schröder in Passenheim, East Prussia.

[1] She wrote the monumental History of Garden Art, regarded as a standard work.

[3] After the deaths of her husband and her sons in the First World War, Gothein traveled east and wrote a book on Indian gardens.

People, nations, generations, we are learning in their intimate, domestic habits, their scientific interests, their living and thinking, its solemnity, its decoration."