Arend Joachim Friedrich Wiegmann (30 March 1770 – 12 March 1853) was a German

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and

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born in Hadersleben,

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. He was the father of

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Arend Friedrich August Wiegmann Arend Friedrich August Wiegmann (2 June 1802 – 15 January 1841) was a German zoologist and herpetologist born in Braunschweig. He studied medicine and philology at the University of Leipzig, and afterwards was an assistant to Martin Lichten ...

(1802-1841). Originally an apprentice pharmacist to his uncle in

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, he spent the following years working in several

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and

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. Following the death of his uncle in 1796, he inherited the Braunschweig pharmacy, serving as its manager until 1820. In 1821 he became a lecturer of

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s at the Collegium Carolinum in Braunschweig, later receiving the title of professor (1832).BHL
Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications In 1839 he published a manual on

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called ''Die Krankheiten und krankhaften Missbildungen der Gewachse''. He was the author of a treatise involving the origins, formation and nature of

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, titled ''Über die Entstehung, Bildung und das Wesen des Torfes''. In 1842 he and L. Polstorff wrote on plant constituents that are ''not''

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: ''Ũber die anorganischen Bestandteiele der Pflanzen''. In 1832,

Franz Julius Ferdinand Meyen Franz Julius Ferdinand Meyen (28 June 1804 – 2 September 1840) was a Prussian physician and botanist. Meyen was born in Tilsit, East Prussia. In 1830 he wrote ''Phytotomie'', the first major study of plant anatomy. Between 1830 and 1832, he to ...

named the plant genus ''Wiegmannia'' in his son's honor.F.J.F. Meyen. 1835 Reise um die erde. volume 2, page 139. ..."und eine neue Gattung aus der Familie der Rubiaceen, welche wir nach unserem verehrten Freunde Herrn Wiegmann d. J. benannt haben"

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.'' 1770 births 1853 deaths People from Haderslev Municipality Immigrants to the Holy Roman Empire German pharmacists 19th-century German botanists People from the Duchy of Schleswig Academic staff of TU Braunschweig {{Germany-botanist-stub