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Georg Büchner

1813–1837 · 19th century

Georg Büchner was a German dramatist, revolutionary and scientist, born near Darmstadt in the Grand Duchy of Hesse. In 1834 he wrote the revolutionary pamphlet Der Hessische Landbote and then fled abroad. In a few years he wrote the plays Danton's Death, Leonce and Lena and Woyzeck and the story Lenz, before dying of typhus in Zurich at the age of twenty-three.

Georg Büchner
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