Arend Friedrich August Wiegmann
Arend Friedrich August Wiegmann is a German zoologist , born the June 2nd 1802 in Brunswick in the Braunschweig and dead the January 15th 1841 with Berlin of Tuberculose.
He is the son of the German Botaniste Arend Friedrich Wiegmann (1771-1853). Wiegmann makes studies of Médecine and Philologie at the university of Leipzig then to that of Berlin where it assists with the courses of Martin Heinrich Karl Lichtenstein (1780-1857) which, in addition to its pulpit of medicine, was director of the museum of zoology of Berlin.
Wiegmann becomes professor with Cologne in 1828 and two years later professor of zoology at the Humboldt university of Berlin where it had Rodolfo Amando Philippi as raises.
He studies mainly the Herpétologie, the Mammalogie and the Carcinologie.
His/her son, born in 1836, Carl Arend Wiegmann, is also a zoologist.
He signs with Johann Friedrich Ruthe (1788-1859) a famous handbook of zoology, Handbuch der Zoologie (Berlin, 1832,621 pages). He also takes part in the foundation, in 1835, of an important review of Natural history, Archiv für Naturgeschichte .
He makes appear in 1834, Herpetologia Mexicana , an important monograph on the Reptile S of the Mexico. The same year, it writes the part on the Amphibien S of the scientific report of forwarding around the world of the Prussian ship , Princess Louise .
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