> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 276](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33066616) of TL-2 Vol. VII > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/13014-1) LSID 13014-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3129473) QID Q3129473 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Wiggers, \[Heinrich\] August \[Ludwig\] (1803-1880), German (Hannoverian) pharmacist; studied pharmacy, chemistry and botany at Göttingen 1827-1835; Dr. phil. 1835; private lecturer for pharmacognosy Göttingen 1837, assistant to F. Wöhler ib. 1836-1848; e.o. professor of pharmacy 1848; general inspector of the pharmacies of the Kingdom Hannover 1850; Medicinalrath 1864. **Abbreviated name**: *A. Wigg.* \[standard form in IPNI: *A.Wigg.*\] #### Herbarium and types Wiggers left a collection of 5000 pharmaceutical samples to Göttingen University. #### Bibliography and biography ADB 42: 465; Barnhart 3: 493; BM 5: 2319; CSP 6: 363-364, 12: 783; Frank 3 (Anh.): 113; Herder p. 133, 413; LS 28837-28838; PR 10242, ed. 1: 11216. #### Biofile - Anon., Bot. Zeit. 38: 375. 1880 (d.). - Awe, W., Pharm. Zeit. 101(13): 332-333. 1956 (W. as pharmacognost). - Hirsch, A., ed., Biogr. Lex. hervorrag. Arzte ed. 3. 5: 931. 1962. - Husemann, Th., Arch. Pharmazie 216 (ser. 3. 16): 401-415. 1880 (obit.). - Poggendorff, J.C., Biogr.-lit. Handw.-Buch 2: 1323. 1863, 3: 1444. 1898(b. 12 Jun 1803, d. 13 Feb 1880), 7a: 771-772. 1971. - Schwarz, H.D., *in* Hein, W.H. & H.D. Schwarz, Deut. Apoth. Biogr. 2: 747-748. 1978 (biogr. details; b. 12 Jun 1803, d. 23 Feb 1880). ### Publications ##### n.17.565. Inquisitio in Secale cornutum **Title** *Inquisitio in Secale cornutum* respectu imprimis habito ad ejus ortum, naturam et partes constituentes, nominatim eas, quibus vires medicinales adscribendae sunt. Auctore Henrico Augusto Ludovoci Wiggers Altenhago-Hannoverano... Commentatio praemio regio ornata. Gottingae \[Göttingen\] (typis Rosenbuschianis) 1831. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Inquis. Secale corn.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1831, p. \[i-viii\], \[1\]-78. *Copies*: FH, Stevenson.