Julius Victor Carus

Julius Victor Carus
Born	July 25, 1823 Leipzig
Died	March 10, 1903 Leipzig
Occupation(s)	Comparative anatomist, zoologist

Julius Victor Carus (July 25, 1823 – March 10, 1903) was a German zoologist, comparative anatomist and entomologist.

Career

Carus was born in Leipzig. He served as curator of the Museum of Comparative Anatomy at Oxford University from 1849 to 1851, and as professor of comparative anatomy and director of the Zoological Museum at the University of Leipzig in 1853.

Carus was an early supporter of Darwinism. With Charles Darwin's approval he became his German translator. In 1875, Carus issued a German edition of Darwin's collected works.

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 George James Allman (1812–1898), Carl Gegenbaur (1826–1903), Thomas Henry Huxley, Albert Kölliker, Heinrich Ludwig Hermann Müller (1829–1883), Max Schultze, 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

External links

• 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