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CARUS, KARL GUSTAV (1789–1869)

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CARUS, KARL GUSTAV (1789–1869) , See also:German physiologist and psychologist, distinguished also as an See also:art critic and a landscape painter, was See also:born and educated at See also:Leipzig. After a course in See also:chemistry, he began the systematic study of See also:medicine and' in 1811 became a Privat docent. On the subject which he selected (See also:comparative See also:anatomy) no lectures had previously been. given at Leipzig, and Carus soon established a reputation as a medical teacher. In the See also:war of 1813 he was director of the military See also:hospital at Pfaffendorf, near Leipzig, and in 1814 See also:professor to the new medical See also:college at See also:Dresden, where he spent the See also:remainder of his See also:life. He was made royal physician in 1827, and a privy councillor in 1862. He died on the 28th of See also:July 1869. In See also:philosophy Carus belonged to the school of See also:Schelling, and his See also:works are thoroughly impregnated with the spirit of that See also:system. He regarded inherited tendency as a See also:proof that the See also:cell has a certain psychic life, and pointed out that individual See also:differences are less marked in the See also:lower than in the higher organisms. Of his many works the most important are:—Grundzuge der vergleichenden Anatomie and Physiologie (Dresden, 1828); System der Physiologie (2nd ed., 1847–1849); See also:Psyche: zur Entwickelungsgeschichte der Seele (1846, 3rd ed. See also:Stuttgart, 186o) ; Physis, zur Geschichte See also:des leiblichen Lebens (Stuttgart, 1851); Natur and Idee (See also:Vienna, 1861); Symbolik des menschlichen Gestalts (Leipz., 1853, 2nd ed., 1857); See also:Atlas der Kranioskopie (2nd ed. Leipz., 1864); Vergleichende Psychologie (Vienna, 1866). See his autobiography, Lebenserinnerungen and Denkwurdigkeiteh (4 vols., 1865-1866) ; K. von See also:Reichenbach, Odische Erwiederungen an See also:die Herren Professoren See also:Fortlage .

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