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    Lavater, with whom he became close friends. After taking orders in 1761, Fuseli was forced to leave the country as a result of having helped Lavater to...
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    Caspar Voght (17 November 1752 – 20 March 1839), later Caspar Reichsfreiherr von Voght (more commonly known as Baron Caspar von Voght), was a German merchant...
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    about Christianity. Three years later one of them, the Swiss Johann Caspar Lavater, sent him his own German translation of Charles Bonnet's Palingénésie...
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  • ISBN 9781404769731. Lavater, Johann Caspar (1795-01-01). Secret Journal of a Self-observer: Or, Confessions and Familiar Letters of the Rev. J. C. Lavater, ... In...
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     250–. ISBN 978-90-04-19500-4 – via Google Books. Lavater, Johann Caspar (1832). The pocket Lavater, or, The science of physiognomy : to which is added...
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  • Thumbnail for Princess Caroline Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt
    centre in Germany where she counted Johann Gottfried von Herder, Johann Caspar Lavater, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, Christoph...
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    copies and engraved versions. A print after it was later used by Johann Caspar Lavater as an illustration for his Physiognomische Fragmente (1777), because...
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  • Salomon Hirzel (1762) Isaak Iselin (1762, first president) Johann Kaspar Lavater (1765) Christian von Mechel Joseph Rudolf Valentin Meyer (1762) Johann...
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    (bust) but can also be full length. The work of the physiognomist Johann Caspar Lavater, who used silhouettes to analyse facial types, is thought to have promoted...
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  • Jakob Herzog (1805–1882) Hans Küng (1928–2021), theologian Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741–1801), pastor and physiognomist Oswald Myconius (1488–1552) Johannes...
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  • June 7 – William Jephson, English Member of Parliament (b. 1640) June 9 Lavater brothers, Swiss physician (b. 1611) Charles Maitland, 3rd Earl of Lauderdale...
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    June 7 – William Jephson, English Member of Parliament (b. 1640) June 9 Lavater brothers, Swiss physician (b. 1611) Charles Maitland, 3rd Earl of Lauderdale...
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  • Thumbnail for Otto Magnus von Stackelberg (archaeologist)
    to have a great impact on his life. There he saw pictures by Johann Caspar Lavater and Salomon Geßner and visited Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi. After wintering...
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    publicly challenged by a Christian apologist, a Zurich pastor named John Lavater, to defend the superiority of Judaism over Christianity. From then on...
    125 KB (15,281 words) - 14:32, 26 December 2024
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    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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  • Zürich writer was Solomon Gesner, the pastoral poet, and yet another was JK Lavater, now best remembered as a supporter of the view that the face presents...
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  • Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf, Ottoman Muslim scientist (d. 1585) 1527 March 4 – Ludwig Lavater, Swiss Reformed theologian (d. 1586) March 5 – Ulrich, Duke of Mecklenburg...
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    Primož Trubar, Carniolan Protestant reformer (b. 1508) July 5 – Ludwig Lavater, Swiss Reformed theologian (b. 1527) July 12 – Edward Sutton, 4th Baron...
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