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 Bullinger. He served as Archdeacon at the Grossmünster in Zurich and briefly Antistes of the Zurich church as the successor of Rudolf Gwalther.
Lavater was a prolific author, composing homilies, commentaries, a survey of the liturgical practices of the Zurich church, a history of the Lord's Supper controversy, as well as biographies of Bullinger and Konrad Pellikan. His work on ghosts (De spectris ...) was one of the most frequently printed demonological works of the early modern period, going into at least nineteen early modern editions in German, Latin, French, English and Italian.[1]
^Moeller, Katrin: Lavater, Ludwig. In: Lexikon zur Geschichte der Hexenverfolgung, hrsg. v. Gudrun Gersmann, Katrin Moeller und Jürgen-Michael Schmidt, in: historicum.net, URL: http://www.historicum.net/no_cache/persistent/artikel/5519/ Archived 2013-12-14 at the Wayback Machine Accessed April 8, 2010
LudwigLavater (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...
result of demonic activity. In the sixteenth century, Swiss theologian LudwigLavater began attempting to explain reported spirits as mistakes, deceit, or...
typified by writers such as Thomas Erastus. The Swiss Reformed pastor LudwigLavater supplied one of the most frequently reprinted books of the period with...
relieve famines through a previously successful granary system. March 4 – LudwigLavater, Swiss Reformed theologian (d. 1586) March 5 – Ulrich, Duke of Mecklenburg...
Bullinger, Konrad Pelikan, Bibliander, Josias Simmler, Wolphius, and LudwigLavater. The Marian exiles included many important or soon-to-be important English...
Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf, Ottoman Muslim scientist (d. 1585) 1527 March 4 – LudwigLavater, Swiss Reformed theologian (d. 1586) March 5 – Ulrich, Duke of Mecklenburg...
was succeeded as head of the Zurich church by his longtime colleague LudwigLavater. He had contacts with English Calvinists through John Parkhurst, in...
Johann Kaspar Lavater. Leben, Werk und Wirkung Göttingen 1991 (editor with Dietrich Meyer, Gustav Adolf Benrath, Ulrich Hutter-Wolandt and Ludwig Petry: Zur...
Fagius Andreas Hyperius Matthias Flacius Illyricus Rudolf Gualther LudwigLavater Wolfgang Musculus Augustin Marlorat Johannes Oecolampadius Huldrych...
writers Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, Matthias Claudius and Johann Kaspar Lavater as well as with the pioneering educationalist Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi...
Daniel Keel (1930-2011), Swiss publisher, founder of Diogenes Verlag Warja Lavater (1913–2007), Swiss artist and illustrator Albert Meyer (1870–1953), Swiss...
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...
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...
business. Gleditsch published authors such as Wieland, Gellert, Lessing, Lavater and Heyne. The most significant achievement of the Gleditsch brothers was...
1781, Tischbein moved on to Zurich. In Zurich he worked for Johann Kaspar Lavater on his Physiognomische Fragmente project. In 1783, Tischbein received another...
and engraved versions. A print after it was later used by Johann Caspar Lavater as an illustration for his Physiognomische Fragmente (1777), because the...
1869) Cynthia Taggart, American poet (died 1849) January 2 – Johann Kaspar Lavater, Swiss poet (born 1741) January 9 – Margaretta Faugères, American playwright...
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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