Education
He studied medicine at the Universities of Bonn and Vienna.
He studied medicine at the Universities of Bonn and Vienna.
He was the father of historian Julius Stephan Wegeler (1807-1883). After finishing his studies in Austria, he returned to Bonn, where he became a tenured professor of legal medicine and obstetrics (1789). After spending two years in Vienna, he moved back to Bonn as an instructor and a general practitioner of medicine.
Wegeler was a Freemason.
Beethoven corresponded with him on the subject of Beethoven"s music (not masonic music) being used in lodge ceremonies. Beethoven offered to compose a better piece than he had heard was being used.
A distinguished doctor, Wegeler is remembered for his 1838 biography of Beethoven (Biographische Notizen über Ludwig van Beethoven), being published with composer Ferdinand Ries (1784-1838) eleven years after Beethoven"s death. Historians consider these memoirs to be an important and reliable source of information in regards to the life of the great composer.