Friedrich Wilhelm Carové (June 20, 1789 – March 18, 1852) was a German philosopher and publicist.

[1] He was a lawyer, held some judicial offices, was made doctor of philosophy by the University of Heidelberg, and officiated for a short time as professor at Breslau.

Due to his publication of a booklet on the Sand Affair in 1819, he was investigated by the police and arrested, thus excluded from the post in Berlin University.

He was harassed and put under surveillance by Prince Sayn-Wittgenstein and his reactionary circles in the Prussian court.

[2][3][4] In 2022 over 4000 pages of his notes and transcriptions of Hegel's lectures were found by Klaus Vieweg in the library of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Munich and Freising.