Carus, KARL GUSTAV

Carus, KARL GUSTAV, a German scholar, physiologist, physician, and artist, was born at Leipzig, 3d January 1789. He first lectured on comparative anatomy at Leipzig, next on midwifery at Dresden, where afterwards he became court physician and councillor of state, and here he died 28th July 1869. His house was the meeting-place of all the most distinguished savants and artists in Dresden. Carus wrote a vast variety of works on anatomy, physiology, and allied subjects, which are all valuable, while some are both original and striking. In his last years he wrote his Lebenserinnerungen und Denkwürdigkeiten (4 vols. Leip. 1865-66).