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    Ludwig Lavater (4 March 1527; Kyburg (castle) – 5 July 1586 in Zurich) was a Swiss Reformed theologian working in the circle of his father-in-law, Heinrich...
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  • philosopher, physiognomist, and theologian Louis Lavater (1867–1953), Australian composer and author Ludwig Lavater (1527–1586), Swiss Reformed theologian This...
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    result of demonic activity. In the sixteenth century, Swiss theologian Ludwig Lavater began attempting to explain reported spirits as mistakes, deceit, or...
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    natural gases can be found as early as 1596, as mentioned in the works of Ludwig Lavater. In 1776 Alessandro Volta first proposed that natural electrical phenomena...
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    typified by writers such as Thomas Erastus. The Swiss Reformed pastor Ludwig Lavater supplied one of the most frequently reprinted books of the period with...
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    relieve famines through a previously successful granary system. March 4 – Ludwig Lavater, Swiss Reformed theologian (d. 1586) March 5 – Ulrich, Duke of Mecklenburg...
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    (1525–1531) Heinrich Bullinger (1532–1575) Rudolph Gualther (1575–1585) Ludwig Lavater (1585–1586) Johann Rudolf Stumpf [de] (1586–1592) Burkhard Leeman [de]...
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    Bullinger, Konrad Pelikan, Bibliander, Josias Simmler, Wolphius, and Ludwig Lavater. The Marian exiles included many important or soon-to-be important English...
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    28 – 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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    28 – 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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  • 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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    was succeeded as head of the Zurich church by his longtime colleague Ludwig Lavater. He had contacts with English Calvinists through John Parkhurst, in...
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  • R. H., London,1572 and 1596. Translation of a demonological work by Ludwig Lavater. A boke of the forme of common prayers, administration of the Sacramentes...
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  • Johann Kaspar Lavater. Leben, Werk und Wirkung Göttingen 1991 (editor with Dietrich Meyer, Gustav Adolf Benrath, Ulrich Hutter-Wolandt and Ludwig Petry: Zur...
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    Fagius Andreas Hyperius Matthias Flacius Illyricus Rudolf Gualther Ludwig Lavater Wolfgang Musculus Augustin Marlorat Johannes Oecolampadius Huldrych...
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    Daniel Keel (1930-2011), Swiss publisher, founder of Diogenes Verlag Warja Lavater (1913–2007), Swiss artist and illustrator Albert Meyer (1870–1953), Swiss...
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    Briefwechsel zwischen Johann Kaspar Lavater und Karl Ludwig von Haller aus den Jahren 1798 und 1799. Bischof Yenni und Karl-Ludwig von Haller. Freiburger Geschichtsblätter...
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    writers Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, Matthias Claudius and Johann Kaspar Lavater as well as with the pioneering educationalist Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi...
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  • 1944), architect who lived, worked and died in Portugal Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741 in Zürich – 1801), poet and physiognomist. Antonio Ligabue (1899...
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    She was also acquainted with Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim, Sophie von La Roche and Johann Caspar Lavater. She was a friend of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe...
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    business. Gleditsch published authors such as Wieland, Gellert, Lessing, Lavater and Heyne. The most significant achievement of the Gleditsch brothers was...
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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 philosophique...
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    1781, Tischbein moved on to Zurich. In Zurich he worked for Johann Kaspar Lavater on his Physiognomische Fragmente project. In 1783, Tischbein received another...
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    of Association). The following is a list of selected publications: J.G. Lavater (1894) Ulrich Hegner: ein Schweizer Kultur- und Charakterbild (1901) Weihnachtsspiele...
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    and engraved versions. A print after it was later used by Johann Caspar Lavater as an illustration for his Physiognomische Fragmente (1777), because the...
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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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    poets and writers including Jean Paul, Friedrich Rückert, Johann Kaspar Lavater, and Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock. Only with the predictable demise of...
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  • 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 (1830–1889...
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    German), vol. 10, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, p. 682 Georg Himmelheber: "Lavater, die Hartmanns und eine unbekannte Zeichnung von Nicolas Guibal". In: Zeitschrift...
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  • 1869) Cynthia Taggart, American poet (died 1849) January 2 – Johann Kaspar Lavater, Swiss poet (born 1741) January 9 – Margaretta Faugères, American playwright...
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