Arend Friedrich August Wiegmann, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Arend Friedrich August Wiegmann

German zoologist

Date of Birth: 02-Jun-1802

Place of Birth: Brunswick, Lower Saxony, Germany

Date of Death: 15-Jan-1841

Profession: zoologist, biologist, university teacher, botanist, carcinologist

Zodiac Sign: Gemini


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About 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 Lichtenstein (1780–1857) in Berlin.
  • In 1828 he became a professor at Cologne, and two years later was an extraordinary professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin. Wiegmann specialized in the study of herpetology and mammalogy.
  • In 1835, he founded, together with other scholars, the zoological periodical Archiv fΓΌr Naturgeschichte, also known as "Wiegmann's Archive".
  • With Johann Friedrich Ruthe (1788–1859) he wrote an important textbook of zoology called Handbuch der Zoologie, and in 1834 Wiegmann published Herpetologia Mexicana, a monograph on the reptiles of Mexico. In 1841 he died of tuberculosis at the age of 38 in Berlin. His father Arend Friedrich Wiegmann (1771–1853) a German researcher in botany.

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