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  United Earth - Johann Kaspar Lavater Quotes & Biography
Johann Kaspar Lavater (November 15, 1741 - January 2, 1801), was a poet and physiognomist.
The two principal sources from which Lavater developed his study of physiognomy were from the writings of the Italian polymath Giambattista della Porta and the observations made by Sir Thomas Browne in his Religio Medici (translated into German in 1748 and praised by Lavater).
Lavater had a mystic's indifference to historical Christianity, and, although regarded as a champion of orthodoxy, was in fact only an antagonist of rationalism.
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  Johann Kaspar Lavater - LoveToKnow 1911
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER (1741-1801), German poet and physiognomist, was born at Zurich on the 15th of November 1741.
Lavater had a mystic's indifference to historical Christianity, and, although esteemed by himself and others a champion of orthodoxy, was in fact only an antagonist of rationalism.
On the taking of Zurich by the French in 1799, Lavater, while endeavouring to appease the soldiery, was shot through the body by an infuriated grenadier; he died after long sufferings borne with great fortitude, on the 2nd of January 1801.
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 Johann Kaspar Lavater
German poet and physiognomist, was born at Zürich on the 15th of November 1741.
As a poet, Lavater published Christliche Lieder (1776-80) and two epics, Jesus Messias (1780) and Joseph von Arimathia (1794), in the style of Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock.
On the taking of Zürich by the French in 1799, Lavater, while endeavoring to appease the soldiery, was shot through the body by an infuriated grenadier; he died after long sufferings borne with great fortitude, on the 2nd of January 1801.
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 Lavater, Johann Kaspar Criticism and Essays
Lavater was one of the leading intellectuals of the age, and the impact of his theories on European literature and thought persisted well into the nineteenth century, particularly so in Germany and England.
Lavater returned to Zurich shortly thereafter but was shot in the abdomen by an occupying French soldier on September 26, 1799, when he came to the aid of two Swiss women.
Accordingly, Lavater described physiognomy as “the science of knowledge of the correspondence between the external and internal man, the visible superficies and the invisible contents.” His primary focus was the head and face, which he believed could reveal the often disguised secrets of one's moral nature.
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 Zeittafel zur Weimarer Klassik
Diese Zeittafel enthält ausgewählte Daten zur Zeitgeschichte und ausgewählte Angaben zu den Biographien und Werken Goethes und Schillers.
Rheinreise mit Johann Kaspar Lavater und Johann Bernhard Basedow
Aufenthalt in Rom bei dem Maler Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein, Umgang mit der Malerin Angelika Kauffmann
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 Johann Kaspar Lavater Biography
Johann Kaspar Lavater (November 15, 1741 - January 2, 1801), was a German poet and physiognomist.
The two principal sources from which Lavater developed his study of physiognomy were from the writings of the Italian polymath Giambattista della Porta and the physiognomical observations made by Sir Thomas Browne in his Religio Medici, a work which was translated into German in 1748 and which Lavater read and praised.
From 1774 on, Goethe was intimately acquainted with Lavater, but at a later period he fell out with him, somewhat abruptly accusing him of superstition and hypocrisy.
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 Lavater Johann Kaspar: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library
Lent...venerable companions, Johann Caspar Lavater and Johann Bernhard...published by Johann Kaspar Huber, Frankfurt...
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Elective Affinities (1809), trans...
LAVATER, JOHANN KASPAR yo han kas par la vat r, lava t r, 1741 1801, Swiss theologian and mystic.
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 JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER ... - Online Information article about JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
Lavater himself published two collections of his writings, Vermischte Schriften (2 vols., 1774—1781), and Kleinere prosaische Schriften (3 vols., 1784—1785).
Hegner, Beitrage zur Kenntnis Lavaters (1836) ; F.
Bodemann, Lavater nach seinem Leben, Lehren and Wirken (1856; 2nd ed., 1877); F.
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 Johann Caspar Lavater (1741-1801)
Internationales Ansehen verschaffte sich Lavater mit seinem Hauptwerk Physiognomische Fragmente, zur Beförderung der Menschenkenntnis und Menschenliebe (1775-1778 in 4 Bänden), an dem unter anderem auch Goethe mitarbeitete.
In den von ihnen erzeugten Phänomenen glaubte Lavater das Walten göttlicher Kräfte zu erkennen.
Caspar Lavater glücklich besiegte Landvogt Felix Grebel, Arnheim 1769.
home.tiscalinet.ch /biografien/biografien/lavater.htm   (642 words)

  
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Son of Zürich phy­si­cian Jo­hann Hein­rich La­va­ter, Jo­hann en­tered the Ac­a­dem­ic Gym­na­si­um in Zü­rich in 1758, and at the end of 1759 be­gan his stu­dies in its the­o­lo­gic­al de­part­ment.
La­va­ter pro­test­ed the ac­tion in print and from the pul­pit.
When the French un­der Mas­sé­na en­tered Zü­rich on Sep­tem­ber 25, 1799, La­va­ter was shot by a French gre­na­dier; he died of his wounds al­most two months lat­er.
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 Literary Encyclopedia: Johann Kaspar Lavater   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
Born in the city-state of Zürich on November 15, 1741, Johann Caspar Lavater rose from a background of relative prosperity to a position of international renown in the latter part of the eighteenth century.
Though Lavater’s attempts to systematise this practice of reading character in the lineaments of the body, which he alternately characterised as a “science” and an “art”, has by now been largely discredited, he remains a significant figure in the history of Western art and ideas.
The heady combination of theological, aesthetic and political zeal, which was to remain a constituent and enduring component of Lavater’s character, prompted his first intervention in the public sphere in 1762 when, along with Füssli and Felix Hess, he circulated a pamphlet exposing the corruption of Felix Grebel, a Swiss Bailiff.
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 Johann Kaspar Lavater Biography and Summary
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.
Lavater, Johann Kaspar(1741–1801) Johann Kaspar Lavater, the German-Swiss poet, physiognomist, and theologian, was born in Zürich.
Johann Kaspar Lavater(November 15, 1741- January 2, 1801), was a poet and physiognomist.
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 Johann K. Lavater Quotes - The Quotations Page
Johann K. Lavater Quotes - The Quotations Page
Never tell evil of a man, if you do not know it for certainty, and if you know it for a certainty, then ask yourself, 'Why should I tell it?'
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Lavater's treatise expands on the principles of Aristotelian systematic logic.
The manuscript deserves to be further studied for its contribution to the history of systematic logic and for its place in Lavater's writings.
Johann Lavater is from a family of philosophers, the most famous of which is his descendant, Johann Caspar Lavater (1741-1801), patriot, preacher and theologian, scientist, writer, friend of Goethe, and so forth.
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 Lavater Johann Kaspar - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Lavater Johann Kaspar - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Aquila, Johann Kaspar (1488-1560), German religious reformer, born Johann Kaspar Adler in Augsburg, Germany.
Bluntschli, Johann Kaspar (1808-1881), Swiss jurist, politician, and educator, born in Zürich.
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 Common-place: The Physiognomy of Biometrics
Lavater’s distinction between pathognomy (the study of man’s passions and his visible, but impermanent facial expressions) and physiognomy (the study of the correspondence between man’s moral character and his permanent and unalterable facial features) limited the power of people to manipulate the reception of their image in public, since it disassociated expression from character.
By turning to physiognomy as a way to detect vice, expose dissimulation, and undermine social mobility in their novels, Rowson and other postrevolutionary authors reproduced Lavater’s opposition between a model of character read from performance and one read from the structure of the face.
In contrast to the revisable, performed, and voluntary self of the fortune-hunting seducer Cogdie, for instance, The Inquisitor posits the permanent, physiognomic, and involuntary one used by the invisible rambler to unmask him.
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 Lavater, Johann Caspar (1741-1801)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
Johann Kaspar Lavater took Holy Orders in 1769 and worked as a Protestant deacon and a pastor in his native Zürich.
The house where Goethe visited Lavater in Zürich at the Obere Zäune 11.
Johann Caspar Lavater's gravesite at the St. Peter church in Zürich.
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 CRL - Johann Caspar Lavater Microform Set (Autumn 2003)
Best known today for his Essais sur le Physiognomie, which was published in hundreds of editions since its initial appearance, Lavater was both admired and detested in his time for his unconventional approach to theology and his views on the human character as expressed in facial and cranial features.
The IDC collection includes more than 21,000 letters in Lavater's estate in the Zentralbibliothek in Zürich, which display the enormous thematic variety produced during a remarkable forty years of correspondence.Now published for the first time, the material is a unique source material for research to such disciplines as theology, history, literature, arts, and the humanities.
Now that the Lavater Correspondence has been acquired, the collection will be available to all CRL members.
www.crl.edu /FocusArticles/CRLCollResources.htm   (1257 words)

  
 Summer2001 - Richard Gray, Germanics-Physiognomics Research
It was reintroduced by Swiss pastor Johann Lavater in the late 1700s to improve human relations.
What made Lavater’s theories particularly dangerous, says Gray, is that he “presented physiognomics as a natural science, but one that relies on intuition.
Lavater’s four-volume series, Physiognomic Fragments, was extremely popular in Europe in the final decades of the eighteenth century.
artsci.washington.edu /news/Summer01/Gray.htm   (430 words)

  
 CRL Collection Resources: Correspondence of Johann Caspar Lavater Microform Set Acquired - CRL FOCUS Newsletter
Contributing members were the University of Iowa, Duke University, McGill University, University of Missouri-Kansas City, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Yale University.
The initial impetus for acquisition of the Lavater corpus was provided by a member of the University of Iowa faculty, whose research on the development of English editions of the Essais grew out of an interest in artist William Blake’s contribution of four engravings to one of the editions.
…Johann Caspar Lavater (1741-1801) seems to have corresponded with most of the leading literary, philosophical, political, and cultural figures in Europe, including Goethe, Fuseli, Herder, de Staehl, Catherine the Great, Joseph II, Queen Charlotte of Great Britain, and many, many more.
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 Lavater, Johann Caspar 1741-1801 books, find the lowest prices
Lavaters Schatten : Physiognomie Und Charakter Bei Ganghofer, Fontane Und Doblin Mit Einem Exkurs uber Den Verbrecher Als Literarische Gestalt Von Schiller Bis Boll Und Einer Systematischen Bibliographie Zum Thema Physiognomie Und Charakter
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Johann Kaspar Lavater, Charles Bonnet, Jacob Bennelle : Briefe 1768-1790 Ein Forschungsbeitrag Zur Aufklarung in Der Schweiz
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 Johann K Lavater Quotes
1 Quotes for 'Johann K Lavater' in the Database.
Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to everything.
All Quotes are provided for educational purposes only and contributed by users.
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 AllRefer.com - Johann Kaspar Lavater (Philosophy, Biography) - Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
AllRefer.com - Johann Kaspar Lavater (Philosophy, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Johann Kaspar Lavater[yO´hAn kAs´pAr lA´vAtur, lAvA´tur] Pronunciation Key, 1741–1801, Swiss theologian and mystic.
He wrote several books on metaphysics, but he is chiefly remembered for his work on physiognomy, the art of determining character from facial characteristics.
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 LAVATER, Johann Kaspar
Libr., in: Publication of English Goethe Society (Leeds) 27, 1958; Günter Schulz, Johann Jakob Stolz im Briefwechsel mit L., in: Jahrbuch der Wittheit zu Bremen 6, 1962, 59-197; Günter Schulz, Zwei Freunde der Wahrheit.
von Johann Kaspar Orelli, 8 Bde., Zürich 1841-44; Ausgewählte Werke, hrsg.
Lit.: (Auswahl:) Johann Salomo Semler, Parodie auf L.s Empfindungen eines Protestanten in einer katholischen Kirche, in: Berlinische Monatsschrift 8, 1786, 457-469; - Georg Geßner, L.s Lebensbeschreibung von seinem Tochtermann, 3 Bde., Winterthur 1802/03; - Ulrich Hegner, Beiträge zur nähern Kenntniß und wahren Darstellung L.s.
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 Projekt Gutenberg-DE - Kultur - SPIEGEL ONLINE
1774 lernte er auf einer Rheinreise Goethe, Lenz, Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, Klettenberg, Basedow, Jung-Stilling, Samuel Collenbusch und Johann Gerhard Hasenkamp kennen.
Auf der Suche nach außerordentlichen religiösen Erfahrungen knüpfte er Kontakte zu dem Exorzisten Johann Joseph Gaß und dem Scharlatan Cagliostro und wandte sich dem animalischen Magnetismus zu.
Seit dem Ausbruch der Französischen Revolution äußerte sich Lavater verstärkt auch politisch und kritisierte die Invasion französischer Truppen in die Schweiz (ab Dezember 1797).
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 Johann Kaspar Lavater quotes - Quotations Book
He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.
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