Heuschrecke, Hofrath (i.e. State-Councillor Grasshopper), a loose, zigzag figure in “Sartor,” a mend and blind admirer of Teufelsdröckh's, an incarnation of distraction distracted, and all the counsellor the “editor” had to advise him and encourage him in his work; a victim to “timidity” and preyed on by an uncomfortable sense of mere “physical cold,” such as the majority of the State counsellors of the day were.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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