Friedrich Wilhelm Schultz

Friedrich Wilhelm Schultz (3 January 1804 – 30 December 1876) was a German pharmacist and botanist who was a native of Zweibrücken.

This article is about the 19th-century botanist and pharmacist. For other uses, see Friedrich Schulz (disambiguation).

He initially learned the pharmacy profession at his father's store in Zweibrücken. In 1827 be began studies in Munich, later performing post-doctoral work in Tübingen. In 1832 he became owner of a pharmacy in Bitsch, and in 1853 relocated to Weissenburg.

Schultz was a specialist regarding the botanical family Orobanchaceae. One of his better known publications was a book on Palatinate flora called Flora der Pfalz. With Paul Constant Billot (1796-1863), he was co-author of Archives de la flore de France et d’Allemagne.[1][2]

In 1840 with his brother, Carl Heinrich Schultz (1805-1867), et al., he founded the scientific society POLLICHIA, a group specializing in nature studies of the Rheinland-Pfalz region.

References
  1. Open Library Annotations a la flore de France et d'allemagne
  2. WorldCat Titles Archives de la Flore de France et d’Allemagne
  3. IPNI.  F.W.Schultz.
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