Julius Wilhelm Albert Wigand (April 21, 1821 in Treysa – October 22, 1886 in Marburg) was a German botanist.

In 1846 he received his PhD and started lecturing at the University of Marburg. He became director of the Alter Botanischer Garten Marburg in 1861. Being a strict Christian, he was opposed to Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.[1] He advocated creationism and has been described as "strongly anti-Darwinian".[2][3]

Selected publications

• Über Darwin's Hypothese Pangenesis (1870)
• Die Genealogie der Urzellen (1872)
• Der Darwinismus und die Naturforschung Newtons und Cuviers (Darwinism and the Natural Science of Newton and Cuvier, 3 volumes, 1874-1877)
• Der Darwinismus ein Zeichen der Zeit (1878)
• Entstehung und Fermentwirkung der Bakterien (1884)
• Grundsätze aller Naturwissenschaft (1886)

References

External links

• "Albert Wigand", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB) (in German), vol. 42, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, 1897, pp. 445–449