Pangloss, Dr

Pangloss, Dr,
in Candide by Voltaire , an optimistic philosopher who holds that all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds, in spite of a series of most distressing adventures (including unsuccessful hanging by the Inquisition and subsequent dissection). He is brought, however, to recognize that, to be happy, man must work and must ‘cultivate his garden’. The intended object of the satire was Leibniz .
In The Heir-at-Law by G. Colman the younger, a pompous pedant.