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Johann Kaspar Lavater
Lavater
Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741-1801), Swiss pastor and physiognomist; Malte borrows his unctuous formula for a wife 'made blessed through childbearing' to pin Jespersen's career piety.
Reading notes
- The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge §172 Lavater
Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741-1801), Swiss pastor and physiognomist; Malte borrows his unctuous formula — a wife 'made blessed through childbearing' (echoing 1 Timothy 2:15) — to skewer Jespersen's career piety.