Conversation so far:
Where was he born?
Carl Scheele was born in Stralsund, in western Pomerania, which at the time was a Swedish Dominion inside the Holy Roman Empire.
What was Carl Scheele's life like growing up?
At age fourteen Carl Scheele was sent to Gothenburg as an apprentice pharmacist with another family friend and apothecary.

Question: What did his parents do?
Self-contained rewrite: What did Carl Wilhelm Scheele's parents do?