Johann Kaspar (or Caspar) Lavater (Alemannic German: [ˈlɒːv̥ɒtər]; 15 November 1741 – 2 January 1801) was a Swiss poet, writer, philosopher, physiognomist...

by vagabonds and mountebanks. It revived and was popularised by Johann Kaspar Lavater, before falling from favour in the late 19th century. Physiognomy...

Lavater is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741–1801), Swiss poet, writer, philosopher, physiognomist, and theologian...

received a classical education. One of his schoolmates there was Johann Kaspar Lavater, with whom he became close friends. After taking orders in 1761...

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...

temperaments Humorism – The theory of the four humours Woodcut from Johann Kaspar Lavater, Physiognomische Fragmente zur Beförderung der Menschenkenntnis...

Herschel, German-English astronomer and composer (d. 1822) 1741 – Johann Kaspar Lavater, Swiss poet and physiognomist (d. 1801) 1746 – Joseph Quesnel, French-Canadian...

of public education, also joined. There were notable failures. Johann Kaspar Lavater, the Swiss poet and theologian, rebuffed Knigge. He did not believe...

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...

in 1781, Tischbein moved on to Zurich. In Zurich he worked for Johann Kaspar Lavater on his Physiognomische Fragmente project. In 1783, Tischbein received...

contemporaries, such as the Swiss physiognomist Johann Kaspar Lavater whose science of physiognomy he ridiculed, and Johann Heinrich Voss, whose views on Greek pronunciation...

Personality test The four temperaments as illustrated by Johann Kaspar Lavater MeSH D010556...

(divine) (1741–1802), minister who translated Leonard Euler and Johann Kaspar Lavater Henry Hunter (architect) (1832–1892), Tasmanian architect Harry...

he performed illustrative work for Johann Heinrich Sulzer, Johannes Gessner, Johann Kaspar Lavater and Johann Kaspar Füssli. He illustrated a number of...

IIII (1586). This influenced the Swiss eighteenth-century pastor Johann Kaspar Lavater as well as the 19th-century criminologist Cesare Lombroso. Della...

body, each associated with a principal organ. The Swiss pastor Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741–1801) introduced the idea that physiognomy related to the...

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...

Valentine Greatrakes Allan Kardec Justinus Kerner Charles Lafontaine Johann Kaspar Lavater William Maxwell Franz Anton Mesmer Marquis of Puységur Phineas Parkhurst...

literary idol, and through him he made contact with Johann Gottfried Herder and Johann Kaspar Lavater, with whom he corresponded. In the following year...

Moritz Arndt Adelbert von Chamisso Christian Fürchtegott Gellert Johann Kaspar Lavater Johann Gottfried Herder Alexander von Humboldt Christoph Martin Wieland...

d/f) Josef Lauff (1855–1933, p/d) Christine Lavant (1915–1973, p) Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741–1801, p/nf) Richard Leander, pseudonym of Richard von Volkmann...

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...

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...

author (d. 1803) October 24 – Johann August von Starck, German pastor (d. 1816) November 15 – Johann Kaspar Lavater, Swiss physiognomist (d. 1801) Date...

Karl Rudolf Hagenbach (1801–1874) Johann Jakob Herzog (1805–1882) Hans Küng (1928–2021), theologian Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741–1801), pastor and physiognomist...

in the problem of crime, producing studies of physiognomy (see Johann Kaspar Lavater and Franz Joseph Gall) and the science of phrenology which linked...

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...

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...

(died 1869) Cynthia Taggart, American poet (died 1849) January 2 – Johann Kaspar Lavater, Swiss poet (born 1741) January 9 – Margaretta Faugères, American...

1935)[b] Ferdinand Lassalle (1825–1864)[b][d] Bruno Latour (born 1947) Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741–1801)[b] Louis Lavelle (1883–1951)[b] Antoine Lavoisier (1743–1794)[b]...