Carl Heinrich "Schultzenstein" Schultz

Carl Heinrich Schultz (1798 to 1871), known as "Schultzenstein" after his birthplace, was a German medical doctor and botanist. The nickname distinguished him from his contemporary Carl Heinrich "Bipontinus" Schultz, also a German botanist. He studied medicine from 1817 at the Friedrich Wilhelms-Institut in Berlin, intending a career as a military physician, and became an associate professor of medicine in 1825 and a full professor in 1833. He travelled to Paris, where he advanced his theories on the circulation of sap in plants. A proponent of Goethe's nature-philosophy, he argued that the vascular system of plants functioned in a way analogous to the circulatory system of animals. His writings include a doctoral dissertation on the circulation of sap in the celandine, a work on the cyclosis of vital sap in plants, a two-volume General pathology (1844 to 1845) and a work on the therapeutic effects of drugs (1846).