Career
He was the father of zoologist Arend Friedrich August Wiegmann (1802-1841). In 1821 he became a lecturer of natural sciences at the Collegium Carolinum in Braunschweig, later receiving the title of professor (1832). In 1839 he published a manual on phytopathology called Die Krankheiten und krankhaften Missbildungen der Gewachse.
Also, he was the author of a treatise involving the origins, formation and nature of peat, titled Über die Entstehung, Bildung und das Wesen des Torfes.
In 1832, Franz Julius Ferdinand Meyen named the plant genus Wiegmannia in his son"s honor.