C. E. A. Wichmann

Arthur Wichmann spent his youth in Hamburg, where his father ran a boarding school.

From 1871 to 1874 he studied at Leipzig University, where he was a pupil of Ferdinand Zirkel, from whom he got his interest in mineralogy.

After he spent a few years as assistant to Zirkel he became professor at Utrecht University.

Apart from setting up research and education Wichmann had to start a geological collection, for which reason he participated in expeditions to Dutch colonies, in 1888-1889 to the Dutch East Indies (Celebes, Flores, Timor and Rotti) and in 1902-1903 to New Guinea.

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