Background
He co-authored volume 7 of the Roemer & Schultes edition of the Systema Vegetabilium with his father Josef August Schultes (1773-1831).
He co-authored volume 7 of the Roemer & Schultes edition of the Systema Vegetabilium with his father Josef August Schultes (1773-1831).
He studied natural sciences, anatomy and medicine at the University of Landshut, earning his medical doctorate in 1825.
After the death of his father in 1831, he settled in Munich as a general practitioner, but the death of his Father and his struggling for general practice caused its toll on him, that he died in vain on 1 September 1840 at the young age of 34.