Education
He studied under Friedrich Wöhler and was assistant to Robert Bunsen for 6 years.
He studied under Friedrich Wöhler and was assistant to Robert Bunsen for 6 years.
He was Director of the Marburger Chemical Institute (Marburger Chemischen Instituts) of Philipps University of Marburg from 1865. He is noted for the studies of oxidation for which he developed a method involving high temperature digestion in a sealed tube. Heavy wall sealed tubes, as used for digestion or thermolysis are referred to as "Carius tubes".
He also wrote a textbook on polybasic acids.
He died in Marburg.