Family

Von Schoultz is a family with several branches. There is a branch in Finland, where the family was naturalized in 1840 and introduced to the Finnish House of Nobility in Helsinki. The Swedish branch of the family has not been ennobled in Sweden, and has not been introduced to the Swedish noble house, which means that it is considered an unintroduced nobility.

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The von Schoultz family has its roots in Lithuania-Poland or possibly Livonia. The progenitor of both the Swedish and Finnish branches is the Polish-born officer Jan Szkultet (1688-1752), in Swedish Johan Schultz, who joined Karl XII's army in 1704. After the Great Northern War, he settled in Stockholm in 1719. From about 1740 he began to call himself Johan von Schultz, and later his sons changed the spelling to von Schoultz in the latter part of the 1700s.

Johan Schultz (later Schultz, von Schoultz) married Johanna Charlotta Wulff in Stockholm in 1720, daughter of judge Kasper Wulff and his Polish-born wife Johanna Margaretha Adami. They had five children: Agneta, Martin, Johan, Fredrik and Samuel. The Swedish branch is descended from Johan, while the Finnish branch is descended from Fredrik. Martin and Samuel's family branches have died out on the male side.

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There is no kinship or connection with the Swedish family that spells their surname von Schultz today.

In May 2016, 54 people with the name von Schoultz were living in Sweden and 43 people were living in Finland. The name also occurs without a nobility prefix. At the same time, there were 219 people in Sweden and 47 people in Finland with the surname Schoultz.

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