Johann Georg Wiggers

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Johann Georg Wiggers (born September 14, 1748 in Bredstedt ; † June 13, 1820 in St. Petersburg ) was a German university professor and Hanseatic diplomat.

Life

Johann Georg Wiggers was a son of the physicus of the same name in Husum Johann Georg Wiggers (1711-1803). From 1768 he studied at the University of Goettingen jurisprudence , but soon turned to philology to which he at Christian Gottlob Heyne heard. After receiving his doctorate, he went to St. Petersburg . In 1777 he worked in Vyborg in the service of Peter von Biron . On November 6, 1782 he became an associate professor of philosophy , especially rhetoric, in Kiel . He also gave philological lectures.

In 1786 he retired from university and went to St. Petersburg as the successor to Johann Nicolaus Willebrandt as an agent (diplomatic representative) for the Hanseatic cities of Lübeck, Hamburg and Bremen. He stayed here until the end of his life, but only held the office until 1810. In 1816 he was formally retired.

Works

  • About the biography. Mitau: Hinz 1777 ( digitized version )
  • Christian the Fourth: A Panegyric Sketch; Dedicated to his Excellency to Mr. Geheime-Rath and State Secretary of Högh Guldberg. [Sl] [1782] ( digitized version )
  • The Morals of the Clio: An Attempt on the Influence of Historical Reading in the Mending of the Heart. Leipzig: Haug 1782 ( digitized version )
  • Mixed essays. Leipzig: Weidmann 1784 ( digitized version )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Christoph Friedrich Menke: The political and diplomatic relations between Russia and the Hanseatic cities in the 18th and early 19th centuries. In: Hansische Geschichtsblätter 81 (1963), p. 103
  2. ^ Journal of the Association for Hamburg History 3 (1851), p. 523
personal data
SURNAME Wiggers, Johann Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German university professor and Hanseatic diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1748
PLACE OF BIRTH Bredstedt
DATE OF DEATH June 13, 1820
Place of death St. Petersburg