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.

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.

His father Arend Friedrich Wiegmann (1771–1853) was a German researcher in botany.

[3] Wiegmann is commemorated in the scientific names of three species of Reptiles:[4]