Background
Carl Gustav was born in Leipzig on January 3, 1789.
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(Carl Gustav Carus (1789-1869)--court physician to the kin...)
Carl Gustav Carus (1789-1869)--court physician to the king of Saxony--was a naturalist, amateur painter, and theoretician of landscape painting whose Nine Letters on Landscape Painting is an important document of early German romanticism and an elegant appeal for the integration of art and science. Carus was inspired by and had contacts with the greatest German intellectuals of his day. Carus prefaced his work with a letter from his correspondence with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, who was his primary mentor in both science and art. His writings also reflect, however, the influence of the German natural philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, especially Schelling's notion of a world soul, and the writings of the naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt. Carus played a role in the revolution in landscape painting taking place in Saxony around Caspar David Friedrich. The first edition appears here in English for the first time.
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Carl Gustav was born in Leipzig on January 3, 1789.
After a course in chemistry, Carl Gustav Carus began the systematic study of medicine and' in 1811 became a Privat docent.
On the subject which he selected (comparative anatomy) no lectures had previously been- given at Leipzig, and Carus soon established a reputation as a medical teacher.
In 1811 Carl Gustav Carus graduated as a doctor of medicine and a doctor of philosophy. In 1814 he was appointed professor of obstetrics and director of the maternity clinic at the teaching institution for medicine and surgery in Dresden. He wrote on art theory. From 1814 to 1817 he taught himself oil painting working under Caspar David Friedrich, a Dresden landscape painter. He had already taken drawing lessons from Julius Diez and subsequently studied under Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld at the Oeser drawing academy.
Carl Gustav Carus is best known to scientists for originating the concept of the vertebrate archetype. Of his many works the most important are:-Grundzuge der vergleichenden Anatomie und Physiologie (Dresden, 1828); System der Physiologie (2nd ed. , 1847 - 1849); Psyche: zur Entwickelungsgeschichte der Seele (1846, 3rd ed. Stuttgart, 1860); Physis, zur Geschichte des leiblichen Lebens (Stuttgart, 1851); Natur und Idee (Vienna, 1861).
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