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In 1809 he succeeded Franz von Paula Schrank (1747-1835) at the University of Landshut, where he worked as a professor of natural history and botany.
He studied medicine in Vienna under Georg Joseph Beer (1763–1821), obtaining his medical doctorate in 1803 from the University of Landshut.
In 1807 he became professor of chemistry and mineralogy at the university of Landshut, and in 1823 conservator of the mineralogical collections at Munich, where he was appointed professor of mineralogy three years later, on the removal thither of the university of Landshut.