Heinrich August Ludwig Wiggers | |
Birth Date: | 12 June 1803 |
Birth Place: | Altenhagen |
Death Place: | Göttingen |
Nationality: | German |
Fields: | Botany, Chemistry |
Author Abbrev Bot: | A.Wigg. |
Heinrich August Ludwig Wiggers (12 June 1803 - 13 February 1880) was a German pharmacist, chemist and botanist born in Altenhagen (today part of the city of Springe).
Trained as a pharmacist, in 1827 he relocated to the University of Göttingen, where he served as a laboratory assistant under chemist Friedrich Stromeyer (1776–1835), and later as an assistant to Friedrich Wöhler (1800–1882) until 1849.
In the meantime he earned his doctorate in 1835, later becoming a private lecturer (1837) and an associate professor of pharmacy (1848) at the university. From 1836 to 1850 he served as deputy inspector-general, later associate inspector-general, of all pharmacies in the Kingdom of Hanover (after 1860 this included the Principality of Lippe).