Career
He was a student at the University of Jena, earning his medical doctorate in 1797. Later, he worked as a physician in the city of Wertheim am Main. He described a number of plant species, and is the taxonomic authority of the genus Sciophila (family Liliaceae).
The fern genus Wibelia (family Davalliaceae) was named in his honor by Johann Jakob Bernhardi.
