Carl Gustav Carus | |
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 Portrait by Johann Carl Rößler | |
| Born | 3 January 1789 |
| Died | 28 July 1869 (aged 80) |
| Known for | Painting |
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.