Moritz Ludwig George Wichmann

Moritz Ludwig George Wichmann (1821–1859) was a German astronomer.

He was an ardent observer of minor planets.

A student of Friedrich Bessel, he observed with the famous Königsberg heliometer.

In 1853 he published a determination of the parallax of Groombridge 1830.

[1] The asteroid 7103 Wichmann[2] and the Wichmann crater on the Moon were named in his honour.