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Carl Gustav Carus

1789 - 1869

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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 the writer Johann Wolfgang 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Carl Gustav Carus is the 268th most popular biologist (down from 234th in 2019), the 1,802nd most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,868th in 2019) and the 42nd most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Carl Gustav Carus ranks 268 out of 1,097. Before him are Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link, David Goodall, Carl Sigismund Kunth, Friedrich Parrot, Erik Pontoppidan, and Alexander von Middendorff. After him are Desmond Morris, Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich, Francisco Varela, C. L. Gloger, Jack W. Szostak, and Carl Ludwig Blume.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1789, Carl Gustav Carus ranks 15. Before him are Stéphanie de Beauharnais, Horace Vernet, Johann Friedrich Overbeck, Heinrich Schwabe, Maria Szymanowska, and Abbas Mirza. After him are Princess Louise Caroline of Hesse-Kassel, Nicolas-Charles Bochsa, Marcellin Champagnat, Princess Amélie Louise of Arenberg, Friedrich Boie, and John Martin. Among people deceased in 1869, Carl Gustav Carus ranks 19. Before him are Alexander Sergeyevich Menshikov, Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille, Alexander Dargomyzhsky, Giovanni Battista Bugatti, Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, and Alexandrine Tinné. After him are Carl Loewe, Prince Leopold, Duke of Brabant, Princess Maria Carolina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Carl Reichenbach, John A. Roebling, and Roger Fenton.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Carl Gustav Carus ranks 1,802 out of 7,253. Before him are Ludolf Bakhuizen (1630), Josias, Hereditary Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont (1896), Princess Philippine Charlotte of Prussia (1716), Andreas Köpke (1962), Magdalene of Brandenburg (1582), and Hermann Samuel Reimarus (1694). After him are Hugo Riemann (1849), Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich (1806), Johann Heinrich von Mädler (1794), Paul Troost (1878), Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1778), and Alfred Schmidt (1931).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Carl Gustav Carus ranks 42. Before him are Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini (1797), Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider (1750), Johann Baptist von Spix (1781), Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link (1767), Carl Sigismund Kunth (1788), and Friedrich Parrot (1791). After him are Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich (1806), Carl Ludwig Blume (1796), Eduard Rüppell (1794), Lorenz Oken (1779), Otto Brunfels (1488), and Jean Cabanis (1816).

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