Julius Victor Carus

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| name = Julius Victor Carus

| image = Victor Carus. Photograph by August Brasch, 1879. Wellcome V0027636.jpg

| birth_date = 25 July 1823

| birth_place = Leipzig

| death_date = {{death-date and age|10 March 1903|25 July 1823}}

| death_place = Leipzig

| occupation = Comparative anatomist, zoologist

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Julius Victor Carus (25 July 1823 – 10 March 1903) was a German zoologist, comparative anatomist and entomologist.

Career

Carus was born in Leipzig. He served as curator of the Museum of Comparative Anatomy at Oxford University from 1849 to 1851, and as professor of comparative anatomy and director of the Zoological Museum at the University of Leipzig in 1853.[http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/namedef-849 Darwin Correspondence Project: Julius Viktor Carus, 1823–1903]

Carus was an early supporter of Darwinism. With Charles Darwin's approval, he became his German translator. In 1872 he published his own History of Zoology in which he criticized the inaccuracies of Pliny the Elder's work and said that the philosopher "misunderstood Aristotle.".{{Cite journal |last=Mermier |first=Guy R. |date=2004 |title=The Romanian Bestiary: An English Translation and Commentary on the Ancient "Physiologus" Tradition |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/41166963 |journal=Mediterranean Studies |volume=13 |pages=17–55 |jstor=41166963 |issn=1074-164X}} In 1875, Carus issued a German edition of Darwin's collected works.Kelly, Alfred. The Descent of Darwin: The Popularization of Darwinism in Germany, 1860-1914. p. 21

Bibliography

(incomplete)

1849. Zur nähern Kenntnis des Generationswechsels (Leipzig).
1853. System der tierischen Morphologie.
1854. Über die Wertbestimmung zoologische Merkmale.
1857. Julius Victor Carus (dir.): [https://archive.org/details/Iconeszootomica00Caru Icones Zootomicae]. Includes contributions from George James Allman (1812–1898), Carl Gegenbaur (1826–1903), Thomas Henry Huxley, Albert Kölliker, Heinrich Ludwig Hermann Müller (1829–1883), Max Schultze, Carl Theodor Ernst von Siebold (1804–1885) et Friedrich Stein. (Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig).
1861. Bibliotheca zoologica (Leipzig, two volumes)
1861. Über die Leptocephaliden. (Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig).
1863–1875 : with Wilhelm Peters (1815–1883) and Carl Eduard Adolph Gerstaecker (1828–1895) Handbuch der Zoologie (Leipzig).
1872. Alexander von Humboldt. Eine wissenschaftliche Biographie. (Leipzig, 3 volumes).
1872. with Johannes Peter Müller (1801–1858) and Charles Darwin Geschichte der Zoologie bis auf Joh. Müller und Ch. Darwin. (Münich).
1884. Prodromus faunae mediterraneae. [https://archive.org/details/prodromusfaunaem01caru volume 1], [https://archive.org/details/prodromusfaunaem02caru volume 2]

References

Translation of French Wikipedia

External links

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[https://web.archive.org/web/20061012214401/http://tweed.lib.ed.ac.uk/audit/auditdetails.asp?item=UCA0889 Portrait]
[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/creator/1672 BHL] Scanned texts. Four works.
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Category:1823 births

Category:1903 deaths

Category:German entomologists

Category:19th-century German zoologists