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- Birth nameKarl Georg Büchner
- Georg Büchner was born on October 17, 1813 in Goddelau, Grand Duchy of Hesse [now Riedstadt, Hesse], Germany. He was a writer, known for Woyzeck (1979), Danton (1921) and Wozzeck (1947). He died on February 19, 1837 in Zurich, Switzerland.
- In 1832, he was engaged to Wilhelmine Jaeglé (1810-1880).
- He was a revolutionary and the brother of physician and philosopher Ludwig Büchner.
- His literary achievements, though few in number, are generally held in great esteem in Germany and it is widely believed that, had it not been for his early death, he might have joined such central German literary figures as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Friedrich Schiller at the summit of their profession.
- He was a German dramatist and writer of poetry and prose, considered part of the Young Germany movement.
- 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 Society for Human Rights (Gesellschaft für Menschenrechte).
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