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A Short Biography of Georg Cristoph Lichtenberg

Author Name:

Georg Cristoph Lichtenberg

Born As:

Georg Cristoph Lichtenberg

Other Names:

Georg Cristoph Lichtenberg

Born:

1 Jul 1742

Died:

24 Feb 1799




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Scientist, satirist and anglophile.                           
Selected Works:

Works published during his lifetime:

Briefe aus England - 1776-78
Über Physiognomik - wider die Physiognomen - 1778
Göttingisches Magazin der Wissenschaften und Litteratur - 1780-85
Über die Pronunciation der Schöpse des alten Griechenlandes - 1782
Ausführliche Erklärung der Hogarthischen Kupferstiche - 1794-1799

Complete works in German:

Schriften und Briefe - 1968-72 

English translations:

The Lichtenberg Reader - 1959 
The World of Hogarth. Lichtenberg's Commentaries on Hogarth's Engravings - 1966
Hogarth on High Life. The Marriage à la Mode Series - from Georg Christoph Lichtenberg's Commentaries - 1970 
Aphorisms - 1990 - reprinted as The Waste Books - 2000.                          
The youngest of eighteen children.                          
The first to hold a professorship explicitly dedicated to experimental physics in Germany.