Friedrich Heinrich Wiggers (15 March 1746 – 3 March 1811) was a German
botanist
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who wrote a flora of
Holstein
Holstein (; nds, label=Northern Low Saxon, Holsteen; da, Holsten; Latin and historical en, Holsatia, italic=yes) is the region between the rivers Elbe and Eider. It is the southern half of Schleswig-Holstein, the northernmost state of German ...
in 1780. A number of variants of his name exist, including "Fridrich Hindrich" and the
Latinisation "Fredericus Henricus" and the alternative
surname
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Practices vary by culture. The family name may be placed at either the start of a person's full name ...
"Wichers".
Wiggers enrolled at the
University of Kiel
Kiel University, officially the Christian-Albrecht University of Kiel, (german: Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, abbreviated CAU, known informally as Christiana Albertina) is a university in the city of Kiel, Germany. It was founded in ...
in 1774, and published his dissertation, "Primitiae Florae Holsaticae", in 1780. He received his
doctorate
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four years later in 1784, becoming a doctor of medicine. He settled down in
Apenrade in
Schleswig
The Duchy of Schleswig ( da, Hertugdømmet Slesvig; german: Herzogtum Schleswig; nds, Hartogdom Sleswig; frr, Härtochduum Slaswik) was a duchy in Southern Jutland () covering the area between about 60 km (35 miles) north and 70 km ...
, 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
citing a
botanical name
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.
References
External links
Archive.orgFull text of ''Florae Primitiae holsatica''
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1746 births
1811 deaths
19th-century German botanists
Botanists with author abbreviations
University of Kiel alumni
18th-century German botanists