Bartsch was born in Königsberg, and graduated in the Netherlands at Leiden University in 1737.
His Thesis de Calore Corporis Humani hygraulico is the only work he published.
He was much attached to the science of botany, which led him to seek the society of Carl Linnaeus, who was on a year-long visit to Boerhaave at Leiden.
[1] By the solicitation of Linnaeus, who had to decline the offer himself, Bartsch was sent by Boerhaave to Suriname, where he died six months after his arrival, having responded badly to the climate.
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Rose, Hugh James (1857).