Georg Büchner

Karl Georg Büchner (17 October 1813 – 19 February 1837) was a German dramatist and writer of prose. He was the brother of physician and philosopher Ludwig Büchner. Büchner's talent is generally held in great esteem in Germany. It is widely believed that, but for his early death, he might have attained the significance of such central German literary figures as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Friedrich Schiller.

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Born in Goddelau near Darmstadt, Hesse-Darmstadt, the son of a doctor, Büchner attended a Humanist secondary school that focused on modern languages, including French, Italian, and English. Nevertheless Büchner studied medicine in Strasbourg.

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In 1828 he became interested in politics and joined a circle of William Shakespeare aficionados which later on probably became the Gießen and Darmstadt section of the "Gesellschaft für Menschenrechte" (Society for Human Rights). In Strasbourg, he immersed himself in French literature and political thought.

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Dramatist: A dramatist is an author of dramatic compositions, usually plays. The term is usually reserved for those who have written "serious" plays (as opposed to comedies or farces). A more general term for an author of plays, of whatever type, is playwright....

Ludwig Büchner: Friedrich Karl Christian Ludwig B?chner (March 29, 1824 – May 1, 1899) was a German philosopher, physiologist and physician who became one of exponents of 19th century scientific materialism....

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