Career
A number of variants of his name exist, including "Fridrich Hindrich" and the Latinisation "Fredericus Henricus" and the alternative surname "Wichers". Wiggers enrolled at the University of Kiel in 1774, and published his dissertation, "Florae Primitiae holsatica", in 1780. He received his doctorate four years later in 1784, becoming a doctor of medicine.
The standard author transcript F.H.Wigg. is used to indicate Wiggers as the author when citing a botanical name.