Charles-Henri Petersen, born Carl Heinrich Petersen (1792-1859), was a German paysagist architect from Altenburg, Saxe. Around 1820, he moved to Belgium, [1] where many of his works still exist. The importance of his interventions in parks and gardens, at the time of the nascent Belgium, made him a defender of "English-style" gardens and a pioneer in the design of monumental greenhouses with a European reputation, starting with the one built in the Parc de Bierbais (1828), where Petersen lived until his death on December 2, 1859. [2]
