Georg Büchner (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
Karl Georg Büchner (BOOK-nur), who died in his twenty-fourth year at the beginning of a promising career in both science and letters, achieved fame almost a century later as a brilliant dramatist and a significant literary figure inspired by the revolutionary Young Germany movement of the 1830’s. The oldest of six children, Büchner grew up in Goddelau, near Darmstadt, where his father, a former medical officer in Napoleon’s army, had taken service with the duke of Hesse-Darmstadt. From all accounts, his mother was of mild and pleasant disposition, but his father was a severe,...
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