Carl Gustav Carus
Paintings
Stone age stronghold at Nobbin. Rugen Island
Pilgrim in a Rocky Valley
Dusk at Castle Moritzburg
Memory of a wooded island in the Baltic Sea. Oak trees by the Sea
Barge Trip on the Elbe near Dresden. Morning on the Elbe
Full moon at Pillnitz
The Imperial Castle
Balcony Room with a View of the Bay of Naples
Ruins of the Eldena Monastery. Greifswald
Mountain Landscape at Dusk
Moonlit Landscape
Eagle
Italian fishermen in the port of Naples
Faust in the Mountains
Mountainous Landscape with a River Valley and an Abbey at Evening Light
View of Dresden at Sunset
View of Dresden from the Brühl's Terrace
Window at Oybin in the moonlight
Drawings
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Barge Trip on the Elbe near Dresden. Morning on the Elbe
Carl Gustav Carus (3 January 1789 – 28 July 1869) was a German physiologist and painter, born in Leipzig, who played various roles during the Romantic era. A friend of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, he was a many-sided man: a doctor, a naturalist, a scientist, a psychologist, and a landscape painter who studied under Caspar David Friedrich.
Life and work
Carl Gustav Carus - Ruine Eldena mit Hütte bei Greifswald im Mondschein
In 1811 he 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.
When the King of Saxony, Frederick Augustus II, made an informal tour of Britain in 1844, Carus accompanied him as his personal physician. It was not a state visit, but the King, with Carus, was the guest of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert at Windsor Castle, and Carus was able to visit many of the sights in London and the university cities of Oxford and Cambridge, and meet others active in the field of scientific discoveries. They toured widely in England, Wales and Scotland, and afterwards Carus published, on the basis of his journal, The King of Saxony's Journey through England and Scotland, 1844.[1]
He is best known to scientists for originating the concept of the vertebrate archetype, a seminal idea in the development of Darwin's theory of evolution. In 1836, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Carus is also noted[2] for Psyche (1846).[3]
Carl Jung credited Carus with pointing to the unconscious as the essential basis of the psyche.
Although various philosophers, among them Leibniz, Kant, and Schelling, had already pointed very clearly to the problem of the dark side of the psyche, it was a physician who felt impelled, from his scientific and medical experience, to point to the unconscious as the essential basis of the psyche. This was C. G. Carus, the authority whom Eduard von Hartmann followed. (Jung [1959] 1969, par. 259)
Carus died in Dresden.
The standard author abbreviation Carus is used to indicate this individual as the author when citing a botanical name.[4]
Written works
Carl Gustav Carus by Julius Hübner
Memory of a Wooded Island in the Baltic Sea (Oak trees by the Sea)
Zoology, entomology, comparative anatomy, evolution
Lehrbuch der Zootomie (1818, 1834).
Erläuterungstafeln zur vergleichenden Anatomie (1826–1855).
Von den äusseren Lebensbedingungen der weiss- und kaltblütigen Tiere (1824).
Über den Blutkreislauf der Insekten (1827).
Grundzüge der vergleichenden Anatomie und Physiologie (1828).
Lehrbuch der Physiologie für Naturforscher und Aerzte (1838)- also medical
Zwölf Briefe über das Erdleben (1841).
Natur und Idee oder das Werdende und sein Gesetz. 1861.
Medical
Lehrbuch der Gynekologie (1820, 1838).
Grundzüge einer neuen Kranioskopie (1841).
System der Physiologie (1847–1849).
Erfahrungsresultate aus ärztlichen Studien und ärztlichen Wirken (1859).
Neuer Atlas der Kranioskopie (1864).
Psychology, metaphysics, race, physiognomy
Vorlesungen über Psychologie (1831).
Psyche; zur Entwicklungsgeschichte der Seele (1846, 1851).
Über Grund und Bedeutung der verschiedenen Formen der Hand in veschiedenen Personen (About the reason and significance of the various forms of hand in different persons)(1846).
Physis. Zur Geschichte des leiblichen Lebens (1851).
Denkschrift zum 100jährigen Geburtstagsfeste Goethes. Über ungleiche Befähigung der verschiedenen Symbolik der menschlichen Gestalt (1852, 1858).
Über Lebensmagnetismus und über die magischen Wirkungen überhaupt (1857).
Über die typisch gewordenen Abbildungen menschlicher Kopfformen (1863).
Goethe dessen seine Bedeutung für unsere und die kommende Zeit (1863).
Lebenserinnerungen und Denkwürdigkeiten – 4 volumes (1865–1866).
Vergleichende Psychologie oder Geschichte der Seele in der Reihenfolge der Tierwelt (1866).
Art
Neun Briefe über Landschaftsmalerei. Zuvor ein Brief von Goethe als Einleitung (1819–1831).
Die Lebenskunst nach den Inschriften des Tempels zu Delphi ( 1863).
Betrachtungen und Gedanken vor auserwählten Bildern der Dresdener Galerie (1867).
References
^ C.G.Carus, The King of Saxony's Journey through England and Scotland, 1844, english edition, London, Chapman and Hall, 1846
^ Ellenberger, Henri F. (1970). The Discovery of the Unconscious: The History and Evolution of Dynamic Psychiatry. New York: Basic Books. p. 207. ISBN 978-0-465-01672-3.
^ Whyte, Lancelot Law (1960). The Unconscious before Freud. New York: Basic Books. p. 148.
^ "Author Query for 'Carus'". International Plant Names Index.
Sources
Jung, C.G. ([1959] 1969). The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, Collected Works, Volume 9, Part 1, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-01833-2.
"Carl GustavCarus", Art History: Romanticism
Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Carus, Karl Gustav". Encyclopædia Britannica 5 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wood, James, ed. (1907). "article name needed". The Nuttall Encyclopædia. London and New York: Frederick Warne.
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