Ernst Krause (biologist)

Ernst Ludwig Krause also known under the pen-name Carus Sterne (22 November 1839 in Zielenzig, – 24 August 1903 in Eberswalde) was a German pharmacist and naturalist.

[1] Sterne was noted for his popular writing on the subjects of nature, the history of science and human psychology.

He grew up in Neumark, studying in Meseritz where he became introduced to the natural sciences through the secondary school teacher Herman Loew.

He was critical of spiritualism and parapsychology and approached it through the materialist philosophy of the natural sciences.

In 1877 he started, with support from Ernst Haeckel, a journal called Kosmos to provide a view on evolution.