Biography
Scheele was born in Stralsund, Swedish Pomerania. Scheele's father Joachim Christian Scheele, was a merchant of a respected German family. At fourteen, he was sent as an apprentice pharmacist in Gothenburg with Martin Andreas Bauch. He retained this position for eight years before becoming an apothecary's clerk in Malmö. Then Scheele worked as a pharmacist in Stockholm, from 1770-1775 in Uppsala, and later in Köping.
Scheele preferred speaking German his whole life, and German was commonly spoken among Swedish pharmacists.
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