Friedrich Heinrich Wiggers (15 March 1746 – 3 March 1811) was a German

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who wrote a flora of

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in 1780. A number of variants of his name exist, including "Fridrich Hindrich" and the Latinisation "Fredericus Henricus" and the alternative

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"Wichers". Wiggers enrolled at the

University of Kiel Kiel University, officially the Christian Albrecht University of Kiel, (, abbreviated CAU, known informally as Christiana Albertina) is a public research university in the city of Kiel, Germany. It was founded in 1665 as the ''Academia Holsator ...

in 1774, and published his dissertation, "Primitiae Florae Holsaticae", in 1780. He received his

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four years later in 1784, becoming a doctor of medicine. He settled down in Apenrade in

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, where he married in 1785 and became the father of four children. The standard author abbreviation F.H.Wigg. is used to indicate Wiggers as the author when

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