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Born: 1789
Died: 1869
physiologist, psychologist and phys; born in Leipsig; regarded as the "father of the unconscious"; wrote a treatise on comparative anatomy when he was 29 and translated it into English (1827); phys-in-ordinary to King of Saxony with whom he travelled to England in 1844, meeting LAWRENCE and Sir James CLARK, among others, and visiting Hanwell Asylum and the Edin Phren Museum; although not an advocate of phrenology, he tried to establish a system of physiological cranioscopy based on scientific investigations; author of Grundzüge einer neuen und wissenschaftlich begründeten Cranioscopie [i.e., Principles of a new Scientifically-based Craniology] (Stuttgart, 1841), reviewed PHREN J, 15 (1842): 154-61, and Atlas der Cranioscopie (Leipzig, 1843-5). (Appendix A: M. Neuberger)
| Identifier | 200. |
|---|---|
| Type | Person |
| Source | Roger Cooter, Phrenology in the British Isles (1989) |
| PDF page | 57 |
| Printed page | 52 |
| Database ID | 496 |
200. CARUS, Karl Gustav (1789-1869), physiologist, psychologist and phys; born in Leipsig; regarded as the "father of the unconscious"; wrote a treatise on comparative anatomy when he was 29 and translated it into English (1827); phys-in-ordinary to King of Saxony with whom he travelled to England in 1844, meeting LAWRENCE and Sir James CLARK, among others, and visiting Hanwell Asylum and the Edin Phren Museum; although not an advocate of phrenology, he tried to establish a system of physiological cranioscopy based on scientific investigations; author of Grundzüge einer neuen und wissenschaftlich begründeten Cranioscopie [i.e., Principles of a new Scientifically-based Craniology] (Stuttgart, 1841), reviewed PHREN J, 15 (1842): 154-61, and Atlas der Cranioscopie (Leipzig, 1843-5). (Appendix A: M. Neuberger)