Education
He was educated at the University of Tübingen, earning his medical doctorate in 1805.
He was educated at the University of Tübingen, earning his medical doctorate in 1805.
Shortly afterwards he settled into a medical practice in his hometown of Esslingen, where with Christian Ferdinand Friedrich Hochstetter (1787-1860), he organized Unio Itineraria. In 1826 he became chief state physician of the Kingdom of Württemberg.
