Albert Gustav Carus

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Albert Gustav Carus (born April 23, 1817 in Dresden ; † January 11, 1891 ibid) was a German physician and personal physician at the Saxon royal court.

Life

Albert Gustav Carus studied medicine at the University of Leipzig .

After his doctorate on February 23, 1841, he worked in the practice of his father Carl Gustav Carus in Dresden. Carus became court medical assistant and in later years court counselor and personal physician at the Saxon royal court.

On November 1, 1849, he married Lina Herbst in Dresden. The marriage remained childless.

In the winter of 1853/1854 he accompanied Prince Georg , the later King of Saxony, on a trip to Sicily and Naples.

During his father's presidency, Albert Gustav Carus was admitted to the Leopoldina on September 14, 1863 with the nickname Celsus ( matriculation no. 2000 ) .

Carus had 5 brothers and 5 sisters. His sister Charlotte (1810-1838) was the wife of the sculptor Ernst Rietschel , who drew a portrait of him in 1837.

Fonts

  • De graviditate tubo-uterina seu interstitiali. Dissertatio Inauguralis Medica, Lipsiae 1841 digitized
  • Sicily and Naples. Diary of a trip during the winter of 1853–1854 in the wake of Sr. Royal Highness Prince George, Duke of Saxony. Wurzen 1856 digitized

literature

  • Willi Ule : History of the Imperial Leopoldine-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists during the years 1852–1887 . With a look back at the earlier times of its existence. Commissioned by Wilhelm Engelmann in Leipzig, Halle 1889, supplements and additions to Neigebaur's history, p. 197 ( archive.org ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Intelligence sheet of the Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung, December 1841, p. 474 digitized
personal data
SURNAME Carus, Albert Gustav
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Celsus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician and personal physician at the Saxon royal court
DATE OF BIRTH April 23, 1817
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH January 11, 1891
Place of death Dresden