Josef August Schultes

Together with Johann Jacob Roemer (1763–1819), he published the 16th edition of Linnaeus' Systema Vegetabilium.

In 1821, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

In 1796, he received his doctorate at Vienna, where he was a student of Johann Peter Frank (1745–1821).

Later on, he served as a professor of botany and natural history at the Theresianum in Vienna, followed by professorships at the Universities of Krakow (1806) and Innsbruck (1808).

In 1809, he succeeded Franz von Paula Schrank (1747–1835) at the University of Landshut as a professor of natural history and botany.