Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Doppelgänger" in English language version.
In one of the stranger twists of fate in literary history, Jean Paul coins two terms in Siebenkäs, "Doppelgänger" and "Doppeltgänger". The term Jean Paul uses to describe Siebenkäs and Leibgeber is "Doppeltgänger", which he defines in a footnote: "So heißen Leute, die sich selber sehen" ["the name for people who see themselves"] (2, 67). Earlier in Siebenkäs the neologism "Doppelgänger" also appears for the first time and means something quite different. In a description of the wedding banquet in the first chapter, the food is so delicious and abundant that "not only was one course [Gang] served but also a second, a Doppelgänger" [nicht bloß ein Gang aufgetragen wurde, sondern ein zweiter, ein Doppelgänger] (2, 42). "Gang" in German has multiple meanings, ranging from a "walk" to the "course" of a meal; according to Jean Paul, when people "see themselves", when one "goes twice", one is a Doppeltgänger; when one has a meal of two courses, in which the second doesn't come second but together with the first, this is a Doppelgänger.
