Johann Kaspar (or Caspar) Lavater (Alemannic German: [ˈlɒːv̥ɒtər]; 15 November 1741 – 2 January 1801) was a Swiss poet, writer, philosopher, physiognomist...
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Physiognomy (section Johann Kaspar Lavater)
by vagabonds and mountebanks. It revived and was popularised by Johann Kaspar Lavater, before falling from favour in the late 19th century. Physiognomy...
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Lavater is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741–1801), Swiss poet, writer, philosopher, physiognomist, and theologian...
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Moses Mendelssohn (section Lavater)
his life in the direction of the cause of Judaism. In April 1763, Johann Kaspar Lavater, then a young theology-student from Zurich, made a trip to Berlin...
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of public education, also joined. There were notable failures. Johann Kaspar Lavater, the Swiss poet and theologian, rebuffed Knigge. He did not believe...
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niece of his friend, the Swiss physiognomist Johann Kaspar Lavater. Fuseli wrote of his fantasies to Lavater in 1779; "Last night I had her in bed with...
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Henry Fuseli (redirect from Johann Heinrich Füssli)
received a classical education. One of his schoolmates there was Johann Kaspar Lavater, with whom he became close friends. After taking orders in 1761...
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temperaments Humorism – The theory of the four humours Woodcut from Johann Kaspar Lavater, Physiognomische Fragmente zur Beförderung der Menschenkenntnis...
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in 1781, Tischbein moved on to Zurich. In Zurich he worked for Johann Kaspar Lavater on his Physiognomische Fragmente project. In 1783, Tischbein received...
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Personality test The four temperaments as illustrated by Johann Kaspar Lavater MeSH D010556...
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contemporaries, such as the Swiss physiognomist Johann Kaspar Lavater whose science of physiognomy he ridiculed, and Johann Heinrich Voss, whose views on Greek pronunciation...
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(divine) (1741–1802), minister who translated Leonard Euler and Johann Kaspar Lavater Henry Hunter (architect) (1832–1892), Tasmanian architect Harry...
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body, each associated with a principal organ. The Swiss pastor Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741–1801) introduced the idea that physiognomy related to the...
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Valentine Greatrakes Allan Kardec Justinus Kerner Charles Lafontaine Johann Kaspar Lavater William Maxwell Franz Anton Mesmer Marquis of Puységur Phineas Parkhurst...
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he performed illustrative work for Johann Heinrich Sulzer, Johannes Gessner, Johann Kaspar Lavater and Johann Kaspar Füssli. He illustrated a number of...
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attempt to infer the mental state and emotion felt by the individual. Johann Kaspar Lavater separated pathognomy from physiognomy to limit the so-called power...
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in the problem of crime, producing studies of physiognomy (see Johann Kaspar Lavater and Franz Joseph Gall) and the science of phrenology which linked...
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translated the works of noted scholars including Leonard Euler and Johann Kaspar Lavater. Henry Hunter was born at Culross on the Firth of Forth, on 25 August...
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"Joufrois", an old French knight poem. Johann Kaspar Lavater. Eine Skizze seines Lebens und Wirkens, 1883 – Johann Kaspar Lavater, a sketch of his life and works...
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Central Library. Honegger-Lavater was a direct descendant of the Swiss poet and physiognomist Johann Kaspar Lavater. Lavater's William Tell and Edward Ruscha's...
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IIII (1586). This influenced the Swiss eighteenth-century pastor Johann Kaspar Lavater as well as the 19th-century criminologist Cesare Lombroso. Della...
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and contributed to the first translation of the Bible in Zurich. Johann Kaspar Lavater was pastor from 1778 to 1801. His gravestone can be seen in the...
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would read the works of the theologians Nicolaus Zinzendorf and Johann Kaspar Lavater, as well as the Bible. On the other hand, during the decades following...
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literary idol, and through him he made contact with Johann Gottfried Herder and Johann Kaspar Lavater, with whom he corresponded. In the following year...
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Brita Sofia Hesselius, Swedish photographer (d. 1866) January 2 – Johann Kaspar Lavater, Swiss physiognomist (b. 1741) January 11 – Domenico Cimarosa, Italian...
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author (d. 1803) October 24 – Johann August von Starck, German pastor (d. 1816) November 15 – Johann Kaspar Lavater, Swiss physiognomist (d. 1801) Date...
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Herschel, German-English astronomer and composer (d. 1822) 1741 – Johann Kaspar Lavater, Swiss poet and physiognomist (d. 1801) 1746 – Joseph Quesnel, French-Canadian...
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physiognomist Johann Kaspar Lavater was his most vocal defender in Switzerland during this time, and Haller would pay tribute to him in an essay after Lavater's death...
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she had been blessed in her cradle by the Swiss priest and poet Johann Kaspar Lavater, she felt it was her vocation to write poetry. As she spent most...
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Karl Rudolf Hagenbach (1801–1874) Johann Jakob Herzog (1805–1882) Hans Küng (1928–2021), theologian Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741–1801), pastor and physiognomist...
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