Carl Gustav Carus

German philosopher, physician, painter (1789–1869)

Carl Gustav Carus is remembered for arguments the next generation could not ignore.

The record lists Carl Gustav Carus as German philosopher, physician, painter (1789–1869).

Carl Gustav Carus was born at Leipzig in 1789. His recorded nationality is Kingdom of Saxony. He studied at Leipzig University and Thomasschule zu Leipzig.

Enlightenment argument moved philosophy into public life: it was now about government, rights and religion as much as metaphysics.

His academic posts were held at TU Dresden.

The recorded fields of work are botany.

Among his principal works are Memory of a wooded island in the Baltic Sea and The studio window. A philosophical position survives not by being proved but by resisting every attempt to dispose of it.

That the work was done from Kingdom of Saxony matters: philosophical traditions, institutions and the language of publication have never been evenly distributed.

Carl Gustav Carus died in 1869, aged 80. The arguments remain in print, which is the form in which philosophy survives.

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