Ferdinand Johann Wiedemann
Ferdinand Johann Wiedemann was born on March 30, 1805. See ranking, bio blurb, and everyone else born that day.
About Ferdinand Johann Wiedemann
Ferdinand Johann Wiedemann (30 March [O.S. 18 March] 1805 in Hapsal (now Haapsalu) – 29 December [O.S. 17 December] 1887 in Saint Petersburg) was a linguist who researched Uralic languages, mostly Estonian. Wiedemann was also a botanist. Wiedemann was of German-Swedish origin. In 1869 he published an Estonian-German dictionary (Ehstnisch-deutsches Wörterbuch), which was the richest dictionary of Estonian words for a long time.