Karl Gustav Jung

Karl Gustav Jung (7 September 1795 – 12 June 1864) was a German-Swiss medical doctor, political activist, professor of Medicine at the University of Basel, administrator and freemason.

Life

Karl Gustav Jung was the son of a prosperous medical practitioner from Mainz, involved in the campaign against Napoleon, Franz Ignaz and his wife Sophie Maria Josepha née Ziegler. By the time Jung was born, his family had moved to Mannheim where his father managed a field hospital. Following medical studies, he gained his Science and MD doctorate summa cum laude at Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg in 1816, with a dissertation, entitled, De evolutione corporis humani. In 1824 he founded the Anatomy Museum in Basel to house the University's collection.

Between 1850 and 1856 he was Master of the Grand Lodge Alpina.

In 1876 the Swiss sculptor Ferdinand Schlöth made a bust of Karl Gustav Jung for the assembly hall of the Museum an der Augustinergasse. In 2008 the bust was re-installed, along with those of other professors, in the Basel Sculpture Hall.

Karl Gustav Jung married three times and was the father of noted architect, Ernst Georg Jung, and the grandfather of Carl Gustav Jung, psychiatrist and author.

Goethe myth Jung's grandson, Carl, entertained a phantasy that he might be descended from the German romantic writer, through his great grandmother, Sophie Ziegler, Karl Jung's mother. This would have needed Karl Jung to have been fathered by Goethe and not Franz Ignaz Jung. Although there were arguably affinities between the younger Jung and Goethe, there is no evidence for Karl's illegitimate paternity at all.

Works Können in Basel die nöthigsten Hülfsanstalten zur Förderung medizinischer Studien gegründet werden? 1823 Über das Verhältniss der Anatomie zu der medicinischen Wissenschaft und über die Leistungen der Anatomen an der Baseler Hochschule: Rectoratsrede gehalten den 26. September, 1828 Die Revolution: Originaldrama in drei Akten von Demius, 1831 Über die seitliche Erhabenheit in dem Lateral-Ventrikel des menschlichen Gehirnes, 1843 Über das Gewölbe in dem menschlichen Gehirne, 1845