Georg Büchner

Georg Büchner was born in 1813 in Goddelau, in the Grand Duchy of Hesse, the son of a doctor. He studied medicine in Strasbourg and then in Giessen, where in 1834 he founded a Society for the Rights of Man on the French model. That same year he wrote with the pastor Weidig a leaflet calling on the Hessian peasants to rise up; prosecuted for high treason, he went to France. A refugee in Strasbourg, he obtained a doctorate from the University of Zurich for a dissertation on the nervous system of the barbel and taught anatomy there from 1836. He died of typhus in Zurich in 1837, aged twenty-three.

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