Arend Joachim Friedrich Wiegmann (30 March 1770 – 12 March 1853) was a German
pharmacist
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and
botanist
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born in
Hadersleben
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Arend Friedrich August Wiegmann
Arend Friedrich August Wiegmann (2 June 1802 – 15 January 1841) was a German zoology, zoologist and Herpetology, herpetologist born in Braunschweig.
He studied medicine and philology at the University of Leipzig, and afterwards was an assistant ...
(1802-1841).
Originally an apprentice pharmacist to his uncle in Braunschweig, he spent the following years working in several pharmacies in Germany and
Switzerland
). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...
. 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
natural science
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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
phytopathology
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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 peat, titled ''Über die Entstehung, Bildung und das Wesen des Torfes''. In 1842 he and L. Polstorff wrote on plant constituents that are ''not''
organic
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* Organic, of or relating to an organism, a living entity
* Organic, of or relating to an anatomical organ
Chemistry
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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 too ...
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"
References
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