Famous People with Name Carus

Carus Thompson            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Carus Thompson: is the vocalist, guitarist and songwriter of the Australian reggae band Carus and The True Believers.He developed a taste for music at a young age and began playing musical instruments at 12 years of age. By the time he turned 18 Carus was making a living out of performing and so he began the band, Carus and The True Believers.

Carl Gustav Carus            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Carl Gustav Carus: was a German physiologist and painter, born at Leipzig. A friend of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, he was a many-sided man: a doctor, a naturalist, a scientist and a psychologist and an advocate of the theory that health of body and mind depends on the equipoise of antagonistic principles. A landscape painter, he had drawing lessons from Julius Diez and subsequently studied under Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld at the Oeser drawing academy. From 1814 to 1817 he taught himself oil painting working under Caspar David Friedrich, a Dresden landscape painter.