Johan Ludvig Mansa
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Johan L. Mansa | |
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| Born | April 10, 1740 |
| Died | April 13, 1820 (aged 80) |
| Occupation | Landscape gardener |
| Honours | Order of the Danneborg |
Johan Ludvig Mansa (10 April 1740 – 13 April 1820), was a German-Danish landscape gardener. The majority of his work was in transforming formal French gardens into English landscape gardens. Some remnants of his works can still be seen on the slope north of Marienlyst Castle in Helsingør as well as a few manors and palaces around Denmark.[1]
Johan Ludvig Mansa was born on 10 April 1740 in Zweibrücken, Germany, where his father was palace gardener.[2] On 1 July 1772 he married Anne Christine Voigt. After the death of his first wife, Mansa married Louise Toxwærd (b. 31 December 1769 d. 23 March 1853) on 9 October 1791 with whom he had ten children: six sons and four daughters. Louise was the daughter of merchant Henrik Christian Toxwærd, owner of Louis grove on Falster and Anna Margrethe Hauen Dorff.[3]
