Friedrich August Carus Explained

Friedrich August Carus (26 April 1770, Bautzen  - 6 February 1807, Leipzig) was a German philosopher. He was the father of surgeon Ernst August Carus (1797–1854).[1]

From 1788 to 1793 he studied philosophy and theology at the universities of Leipzig and Göttingen. In 1796 he became an associate professor of philosophy at Leipzig, where in 1805 he attained a full professorship. In Leipzig he also served as a preacher (Frühprediger) at the University Church.[2] As a philosopher he was influenced by the writings of Immanuel Kant and Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi.[3] [4] After his death, his principal philosophical, psychological, theological and historical works were edited and published in seven volumes by Ferdinand Gotthelf Hand and Johann David Goldhorn with the title "Nachgelassene Werke" (1808–10).[5]

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Note: Carus wrote his reviews for the Neues theologisches Journal anonymously, using the signature "Hld".[11] His contributions to the Magazin für Religions- Moral und Kirchengeschichte by Karl Friedrich Stäudlin and the Hellenica by Karl Gottfried Siebelis have yet to be identified.[12]

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Notes and References

  1. Bernhard Koerner (Hrsg.), Genealogisches Handbuch Bürgerlicher Familien, Bd. 17, Görlitz 1910, S. 75; Georg von Adelmann, Dr. Ernst Carus. Das Inland, Jg. 19, Nr. 35, 30. August 1854, 569-579.
  2. http://www.uni-leipzig.de/unigeschichte/professorenkatalog/leipzig/Carus_1344/ Prof. Dr. phil. Friedrich August Carus
  3. http://www.zeno.org/Eisler-1912/A/Carus,+Friedrich+August Carus, Friedrich August
  4. http://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz7997.html Carus, Friedrich August
  5. Johann Ambrosius Barth & Paul Gotthelf Kummer, Nachricht über die Herausgabe von F. A. Carus hinterlassenen Werken, appended to H. A. Schott, Recitatio De Friederici Augusti Cari, Leipzig 1808. The announcement from Leipzig publishers Barth and Kummer is dated 2nd of January 1808. The edition was originally intended to be larger in scope. See also their shorter notice in Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung, 5. März 1808, 555-556.
  6. Georg Eckardt & Matthias John, Anthropologische und psychologische Zeitschriften um 1800, in: G. Eckardt, et al., Anthropologie und empirische Psychologie um 1800, Köln 2001, 134-135.
  7. Preface by Ferdinand Gotthelf Hand to NW 7, p. cxxxviii
  8. Letter by F. A. Carus to Johann Friedrich Herbart (September 1, 1805), in: J. F. Herbart, Sämtliche Werke, 16. Band, Langensalza 1912, 281
  9. C. A. Schwarze, Zum Andenken des verewigten Herrn Professors Carus in Leipzig. Neue Lausizische Monatsschrift 1807, Zweyter Theil, Elftes Stück, 605
  10. Preface by Ferdinand Gotthelf Hand to NW 7, p. cxl
  11. [Johann Philipp Gabler]
  12. Preface by Ferdinand Gotthelf Hand to NW 7, pp. cxliii & clxviii.