1793 studies of medicine and mathematics at the University of Göttingen; 1796 doctoral dissertation, entitled De emendanda physiologia; from 1796 onward consulting physician at Bremen; 1797 professor of mathematics and medicine at the Gymnasium illustre in Bremen; 1824 foundation of Zeitschrift für Physiologie with his brother, the botanist Ludolph Christian Treviranus and with Friedrich Tiedemann.