Julius Victor Carus
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| Born | 25 July 1823 |
| Died | 10 March 1903 (aged 79) |
| Occupation(s) | Comparative anatomist, zoologist |
Julius Victor Carus (25 July 1823 – 10 March 1903) was a German
entomologist
.
Career
Carus was born in
University of Leipzig in 1853.[1]
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."[2]. In 1875, Carus issued a German edition of Darwin's collected works.[3]
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.): Icones Zootomicae. Includes contributions from 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. volume 1, volume 2
References
Translation of French Wikipedia
- ^ Darwin Correspondence Project: Julius Viktor Carus, 1823–1903
- ISSN 1074-164X.
- ^ Kelly, Alfred. The Descent of Darwin: The Popularization of Darwinism in Germany, 1860-1914. p. 21
External links
German Wikisource has original text related to this article:
- Julius Victor Carus in the German National Library catalogue
- Portrait
- BHL Scanned texts. Four works.
- Works by or about Julius Victor Carus at Internet Archive
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