Arend Friedrich August Wiegmann

Arend Friedrich August Wiegmann ( born June 2, 1802 in Braunschweig, † January 15, 1841 ) was a German zoologist.

Life

The son of a pharmacist Arend Joachim Friedrich Wiegmann studied medicine and philology at the universities of Leipzig and Berlin. In Berlin, he was a member of the zoologist Martin Lichtenstein. He received in 1828 a professorship in Cologne before it, associate professor in Berlin two years. Wiegmann specializing in herpetology.

He was a teacher of the botanist and zoologist Rudolph Amandus Philippi.

He is the father of Carl Arend Friedrich Wiegmann malacologists ( 1836-1901 ).

Works (selection)

• Observationes Zoologicae Criticae In Aristotelis Historiam Animalium. (Dissertation), Berlin in 1826.
• Together with Johann Friedrich Ruthe: Handbook of Zoology. Berlin 1832; continued by Franz Hermann Troschel ( digitized version of the 2nd edition 1843).
• Herpetologia Mexicana. Berlin 1834.
• Archives of Natural History. first vintage in 1835.