 After a classical education at the Elisabeth school in Breslau, Scholz attended the University of Wittenberg from 1572 to 1576.There and in Padua and Bologna, cities with well-established botanical gardens, he studied medicine and other sciences.In 1579 he undertook an educational grand tour of Italy with his countrymen Niklas von Rhediger, Johann Matthäus Wacker von Wackenfels und Martin Schilling.