biography
| name: |
Lavater, Johann Kaspar
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pronunciation:
[lavater]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1741–1801)
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| biography:
| Physiognomist, theologian, and writer, born in Zürich, N Switzerland. In 1769 he received Protestant orders, and made himself known by a volume of poems, Schweizerlieder (1767). He attempted to elevate physiognomy into a science in his Physiognomische Fragmente (1775–8, trans Essays on Physiognomy), written with the assistance of Goethe. While tending the wounded at the capture of Zürich by Masséna (1799) he was wounded himself, and later died of his injuries. |
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