13 Facts About Albert Wigand

Julius Wilhelm Albert Wigand, known as Albert Wigand, was a German botanist, pharmacologist and pharmacognostician.

Albert Wigand's is most well known for being the director of the Alter Botanischer Garten Marburg from 1861 to 1886, and for his opposition to Charles Darwin and the theory of Evolution on religious grounds.

Vilmar's teaching philosophy was the turn his students into or "Christian leaders of men," and Albert Wigand took this sense of purpose to heart.

Albert Wigand travelled throughout Germany and Switzerland, and found himself in Munich, where he made the acquaintance of the legendary naturalist Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert.

In early 1845, Albert Wigand took up a position working in the private laboratory of Matthias Schleiden in Jena, where he immersed himself in both botanical literature and the study of plant morphology.

Albert Wigand was awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy on August 29,1846.

On October 2,1851, Albert Wigand married Harriett Emma Vorster in his hometown of Treysa.

Albert Wigand's parents were Carl Friedrich Vorster and Charlotte Rose Francoise.

From 1851, Albert Wigand was an assistant professor in the departments of botany and pharmacology at the University of Marburg.

In 1854, the number of pharmacy students had increased to such a point that Albert Wigand found it necessary to establish a medicinal garden for the students to use, rather than relying on ready-made ingredients from local apothecaries.

Albert Wigand then spent the remainder of his career at the botanical garden rebuilding the lost collection, as well as enacting updates and changes in line with his theories about herbology and botany.

In 1858, Albert Wigand became a corresponding member of the Wetterauische Gesellschaft in Hanau, and in 1861 he was made a member of the Verein fur Naturkunde in Kassel.

From about 1873, Albert Wigand had spent the better part of each autumn in Oberstdorf conducting personal research and preparing his writings, but on his return in October 1885, he began to feel unwell, which caused him to relinquish his teaching responsibilities through the summer of the following year.