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The Background and Content of Thomas Jefferson's Plan for a Botanical Garden for the University of Virginia

토머스 제퍼슨의 버지니아대학교 식물원 구상 배경과 내용

  • Kim, Jung-Hwa (Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh)
  • 김정화 (에든버러대학교 고등인문연구소)
  • Received : 2018.12.18
  • Accepted : 2019.05.29
  • Published : 2019.06.30

Abstract

This paper examines the background and content of Thomas Jefferson's botanical garden plan for the University of Virginia. When Jefferson promoted the establishment of a botanical garden, European botanical gardens were evolving from physic gardens, and American botanical gardens were in their infancy. Accordingly, this paper compares the Botanical Garden Plan for the University of Virginia with contemporary botanical gardens. This is examined by outlining the trends of botanical gardens in Europe and the United States around the nineteenth century, analyzing their function and spatial structure. Also, Jefferson's perspective on botany, his plan, and botanical gardens are reviewed. This study found that Jefferson's project had its background in the social recognition of the importance of botany as a practical science, advancing the national economy, which was a prominent goal in late eighteenth-century Europe, and in developing networks of exchanging plants and information concerning botany and botanical gardens. Based on the botanist Correia's opinion on the role of a public botanical garden, the Botanical Garden Plan for the University of Virginia was developed by Jefferson as an action plan, including its site creation, space organization, and supplying of plants. Compared to the other contemporary botanical gardens, the University of Virginia's Botanical Garden Plan has the following characteristics. First, like European gardens in the late eighteenth century, it evolved from being a physic garden to a botanical one. As such, it emphasized botanical research and education over medicine, creating a tree garden and a plant garden. Second, it differed from many European and American botanical gardens in that it rejected decorative elements, refused to install a greenhouse, and attempted to spread practical overseas plants suitable to the local climate. This study contributes to broadening the history of botanical gardens at the turn of the nineteenth century.

본 연구는 토머스 제퍼슨의 버지니아대학교 식물원 구상의 배경과 내용을 고찰한다. 제퍼슨이 식물원 설립을 추진했던 시기가 유럽에서 식물원이 약용 식물원에서 진화한 때이자 미국에서 여러 식물원이 설립된 초창기라는 사실에 주목하여 동시대 식물원과 비교하여 버지니아대학교 식물원 구상의 특징을 짚어내고자 하였다. 이를 위해 19세기 전후 구미 주요 식물원의 역할과 공간 구조를 분석하여 경향을 파악하였다. 이와 함께 식물학과 식물원에 대한 제퍼슨의 관점과 식물원 구상안을 검토하며 버지니아대학교 식물원을 당대 사례와 비교 검토하였다. 연구 결과 그 배경은 18세기 후반 유럽에서 두드러지게 나타난 국가 경제를 견인하는 실용 과학으로서 식물 교육과 연구의 중요성에 대한 사회 인식, 그리고 식물학과 식물원에 대한 정보와 식물을 교환하는 네트워크에서 찾을 수 있다. 버지니아대학교 식물원 구상은 공공 식물원의 역할에 대한 식물학자 코레아의 의견이 바탕이 되어 제퍼슨에 의해 부지 조성과 개략적인 공간 구성, 식물 수급 방안을 포함한 실행 전략으로 발전되었다. 동시대 식물원 사이에서 버지니아대학교 식물원 구상이 지니는 특징은 다음과 같다. 첫째, 초본 이외에 교목 정원을 별도로 구성하고 의학이 아닌 식물학 연구와 교육을 강조했던 측면에서 18세기 후반 유럽 식물원의 약용 식물원에서 식물원으로의 진화와 같은 경향을 보인다. 둘째, 장식적 요소를 배제하고 온실 설치를 거부하며 지역 기후에 적합한 해외 실용 식물을 확산시키려 했다는 점에서 유럽과 미국의 많은 식물원과 다르다. 본 연구는 버지니아대학교 식물원 구상을 사례로 19세기 전후 식물원의 역사와 문화에 대한 이해의 폭을 넓히는데 기여한다는 점에서 의의를 지닌다.

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