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Johann Caspar Lavater

Swiss pastor and physiognomist who wrote Essays on Physiognomy (1775–1778) — arguing that character can be read from facial features — influencing European culture, attracting Goethe's collaboration and later criticism, and inspiring the criminology of Lombroso and the racial science of the 19th century.

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