Ferdinand Johann Wiedemann
Estonian linguist and botanist
Died when: 82 years 274 days (992 months)Star Sign: Aries
Ferdinand Johann Wiedemann (30 March [O.S. 18 March] 1805 in Hapsal (now Haapsalu) – 29 December [O.S. 17 December] 1887 in Saint Petersburg) was an Estonian linguist who researched Uralic languages, mostly Estonian.
Wiedemann was also a botanist.Wiedemann was of German-Swedish origin.In 1869 he published an Estonian-German dictionary (Ehstnisch-deutsches Wörterbuch), which was the richest dictionary of Estonian words for a long time.
The standard author abbreviation Wiedem. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.
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