Lichtenberg, Georg Christoph, German physicist and satirist, born near Darmstadt; was educated at Göttingen, and appointed professor there in 1770; he wrote a commentary on Hogarth's copperplates; his reputation in Germany as a satirist is high (1742‒1799).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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