Touchy, Ferdinand Christian (1736-1808) 
Ferdinand August or Christiein Touchy was horn in 1736, 
was tenant fanner on the estate of Mahlis, and died 1808 
at Dresden* Under the name of C* H* Meisner he published 
"Landwirtsohaftlioher gairten- uud forstkalendar, ” Leipsig, 
1796* — Cf* GiiCntz, Handb* Landw. Litt* 2:226-227 (1897) 
The second name ’’August” given by Guntz is not usual¬ 
ly accepted; and there is a difference of opinion about 
Touchy’s first name, which is given as ”J’riedrich” in the 
Brit* Mus* Cat*, and in a reference from G* Gaschitz, in 
Cat* Bib* Nat* Paris, altho the latter makes its reference 
from J* F* Blotz and C* H* Meisner to "Touchy^ Ferdinand 
Christian*” These latter names are used by Kayser, Bucher- 
Lexikon, 5:461, which also gives the date of the author’s 
death as April 10th or 11th, 1808, nn4 which seems likely 
to be based on contemporary biographical data* 
Kayser says Touchy published xinder the following names: 
1* Karl Friedrich Anton; 2* C, F* Bar; 3* J* C* Blotz; 
4* D, F* Class; 5* Christian Heinrich Dietrich; 6. Dh- 
chahie; 7* G* Gaschitz; 8* C, F* Gaudich; 9* Johann 
Franz Gotz; 10* C* H, Meissner; 11* Christian Tiessen* 
Among them all, C* F* Bar is treated in Cat* Bib. Nat* 7: 
98, and J* F* Gd'tz in Doohnahl, Bib* Hort*, p*61, as if 
they were veritable authors, without mention of Touchy* 
Dochnahl otherwise adopts the practice of Kayser, who en¬ 
ters under these pseudonyms followed by F. C, Touchy in 
parenthesis* 
Touchy’s works cover a wide range of subjects, but few 
of them are included in this bibliography, whore they are 
brought together under his own name, tho they were actual¬ 
ly published under the following: 
Blotz, J* F, (not J* C* as in Kayser)* Auf zwanzig- 
jAhrige erfahrung gogrundete unterricht, wie man durch 
gehorige behandlung des hopfon-, spargel- und meerrettig- 
baues sehr vielen vortheil ziehen kann (1788); Die gar- 
tenkunst (1795) 
Dietrich, Christian Heinrich* Das ganze des garten- 
baues (1802); Noue erfindung, wie man mitten im winter 
••* vegetabilien erziehen kann (1801); Praktische anwei- 
s\ing zxim anbaue ••• nicht ••• bekannter erdgewachse (1804) 
Gaschitz, G* Experimentalokonomie* (1797-1800) 
Gotz, Johann Franz* Anweisimg zur vortheilhaftor an- 
legung dor baumschulen (1788) 
Meissner, C. H* Der aufrichtige blumengartner (1800); 
Landwirthscharts-' garten- und forstkalendar (1796) 
Tiessen, Christian* Praktischer unterricht von erzio- 
hung, pflege und wartung jxmger obstbaume (1788) 
