Lavater, Johann Kaspar(1741–1801)
Johann Kaspar Lavater, the German-Swiss poet, physiognomist, and theologian, was born in Zürich. He studied at the gymnasium there under the literary cr...
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A religious enthusiast verging on zealotry, Johann Kaspar Lavater lived the life of a pastor in Zurich--counseling prisoners on death row, working in an orphanage, and preaching Sunday sermons. At the...
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In the following essay, Graham chronicles the reception and influence of Lavater's works in England.
When Johann Caspar Lavater died in 1801, a leading British periodical, The Scots Magazine...
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In the following introduction to a facsimile reprint of William Blake's annotated copy of Aphorisms on Man, Shroyer recounts the publication history of Lavater's work and discusses its i...
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In the following essay, Shortland briefly summarizes the history of physiognomy, then concentrates on Lavater's approach to facial analysis as described in his Physiognomischen Fragmente.
In...
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In the following essay, Heier traces the impact of Lavater's Physiognomischen Fragmente on Russian culture.
Lavater's edifying views, as well as the total concept of physiognomic thin...
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In the following excerpt, Berland argues that an evaluation of Lavater's comments on images of Socrates indicates that his method of physiognomy is not empirical, but instead “pseudo-ind...
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In the following essay, Shookman critiques the pseudo-science of physiognomy professed by Lavater, while examining its popularity, logical flaws, influence on German literature, and relationship to th...
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In the following essay, Tytler considers the immense, if generalized, influence of Lavater's Physiognomischen Fragmente on the nineteenth-century English novel.
It is curious to reflect that...
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In the following essay, Tytler identifies Lavaterian principles of physiognomy in British literary portraiture of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, discussing works by Ann Radcliffe,...
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In the following essay, Berland highlights Georg Christoph Lichtenberg's criticism of Lavater's physiognomy, using the example of Samuel Johnson to elucidate contradictions and weaknesse...
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