Education
He studied under Louis Claude Richard in Paris, and in 1806–1810 served as a military pharmacist.
Botanist Pharmacologist university professor
He studied under Louis Claude Richard in Paris, and in 1806–1810 served as a military pharmacist.
He was later a professor of botany to the faculty of medicine at the University of Strasbourg and a chief pharmacist of Strasbourg hospices. In 1816 he was appointed director of the botanical garden at Strasbourg. As a taxonomist, he described a number of species within the genus Potentilla.
The genus Nestlera (family Asteraceae) was named in his honor by Kurt Sprengel.