Buechner

(Fried rich Karl Christian Ludwig), German materialist, b. Darmstadt, 29 March, 1824. Studied medicine in Gei en, Stra burg and Vienna. In ’55 he startled the world with his bold work on Force and Matter , which has gone through numerous editions and been translated into nearly all the European languages. This work lost him the place of profe or which he held at Tübingen, and he has since practised in his native town. Büchner has developed his ideas in many other works such as Nature and Spirit (1857), Physiological Sketches , ’61; Nature and Science , ’62; Conferences on Darwin ism , ’69; Man in the Past, Present and Future , ’69; Materialism its History and Influence on Society , ’73; The Idea of God , ’74; Mind in Animals , ’80; and Light and Life , ’82. He also contributes to the Freidenker , the Dageraad , and other journals.