On the occasion of the 275th birthday of the experimental physicist and aphorist. What Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, the famous Göttingen experimental physicist, thought and observed, and uniquely formulated in his secretly kept notebooks, humorously titled "Sudelbücher," is among the most significant contributions of his era. The hunchbacked great scholar and sparkling academic teacher recorded his observations and reflections in an inimitably and remarkably modern way for 33 years. The essence of a thinker’s life has become this hidden work, which is also an almost unreadable book of German literature. Ulrich Joost compiles aphorisms, satire, and parodic elements from Lichtenberg's Sudelbücher, letters, and essays into a book that one should take to a deserted island, by a writer one would want as a dinner companion.