Julius Hermann Schultes (4 February 1804 in
Vienna – 1 September 1840 in
Munich) was an
Austrian
botanist
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from
Vienna. 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,
Biographien.ac
(biography in German) but the death of his father and his struggling for general practice caused its toll on him, that he died in vain
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on 1 September 1840 at the young age of 36.
(The "Systema Vegetabilium" 16th edition was published by Julius Hermann Schultes' father Josef August Schultes and his colleague Johann Jacob Roemer who was a famous physician and professor of botany in Zurich, Switzerland)
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19th-century Austrian botanists
Austrian taxonomists
1804 births
1840 deaths
Scientists from Vienna
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