Education
He studied at the Universities of Erlangen, Munich and Heidelberg, earning his medical doctorate in 1852.
Botanist lichenologist mycologist
He studied at the Universities of Erlangen, Munich and Heidelberg, earning his medical doctorate in 1852.
During his career, he was a practicing physician in Dietenhofen (from 1854), Sugenheim (from 1857) and Windsheim (from 1871). In 1875 he became regional medical examiner in Lohr am Main. In 1861 the fungi genus Rehmia was named after him by lichenologist August von Krempelhuber.
Other mycological genera that contain his name are Rehmiella, Rehmiodothis and Rehmiomycella.