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Lichtenberg and the Little Flower Girl (2007)

Lichtenberg and the Little Flower Girl (2007)

Romance Historical Fiction Literary Fiction

Gert Hofmann

Year: 2007
Authors: Gert Hofmann
Print type: BOOK

Description:

"Goethe, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Wittgenstein, Tolstoy, Einstein - all praised the writings of Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-1799), a mathematician, physicist and astronomer by profession, and an aphorist and satirist on the sly. In Lichtenberg and the Little Flower Girl, novelist Gert Hofmann weaves a fictionalized tale of Lichtenberg's real life romance with "the model of beauty and sweetness," Maria Stechard, a flower seller he meets one day near his laboratory in Gottingen."--BOOK JACKET.