Education
From 1817 to 1821, he studied medicine at the University of Würzburg, obtaining his doctorate with a dissertation titled Tubercula in cerebro reperta.
From 1817 to 1821, he studied medicine at the University of Würzburg, obtaining his doctorate with a dissertation titled Tubercula in cerebro reperta.
He was a brother-in-law to archaeologist Joseph Anselm Feuerbach. Following graduation, he worked as a physician in the cities of Roth and Nuremberg. From 1824 onward, he maintained a medical practice in Ansbach.
Heidenreich notably took part in the autopsy of Kaspar Hauser, following the latter"s mysterious death in December 1833.
As a result of his findings, he published the treatise Kaspar Hauser"s Verwundung, Krankheit und Leichenöffnung ("Kaspar Hauser"s wounds, illness and autopsy").