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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

physiognomist Johann Kaspar Lavater was his most vocal defender in Switzerland during this time, and Haller would pay tribute to him in an essay after Lavater's death...

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

Physiognomy of the melancholic temperament (drawing by Thomas Holloway, c.1789, made for Johann Kaspar Lavater's Essays on Physiognomy)...

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...

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]...

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...

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

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...

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

"Joufrois", an old French knight poem. Johann Kaspar Lavater. Eine Skizze seines Lebens und Wirkens, 1883 – Johann Kaspar Lavater, a sketch of his life and works...

Brita Sofia Hesselius, Swedish photographer (d. 1866) January 2 – Johann Kaspar Lavater, Swiss physiognomist (b. 1741) January 11 – Domenico Cimarosa, Italian...

Zürich – 1944), architect who lived, worked and died in Portugal Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741 in Zürich – 1801), poet and physiognomist. Antonio Ligabue...