Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (born July 1, 1742 in Ober-Ramstadt, Germany, died February 24, 1799 in Göttingen, Germany) was a German physicist, aphorist, philosopher and satirical writer.

Selected works

• Briefe aus England, 1776-78
• Über Physiognomik, wider die Physiognomen, 1778
• Göttingisches Magazin der Wissenschaften und Litteratur, 1780-85 (ed. by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg and Georg Forster)
• Über die Pronunciation der Schöpse des alten Griechenlandes, 1782
• Ausführliche Erklärung der Hogarthischen Kupferstiche, 1794-1799
• Schriften und Briefe, 1968-72 (4 vols., ed. by Wolfgang Promies)
• The World of Hogarth. Lichtenberg's Commentaries on Hogarth's Engravings, 1966 (trans. by Innes and Gustav Herdan)
• Hogarth on High Life. The Marriage à la Mode Series, from Georg Christoph Lichtenberg's Commentaries, 1970 (trans. and ed. by Arthur S. Wensinger with W. B. Coley)
• Aphorisms, 1990 (trans. with an introduction and notes by R. J. Hollingdale)