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Also known as Friedrich Karl Christian Ludwig Büchner, Ludwig Buechner

German philosopher and scientist (1824-1899)

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Ludwig Büchner was a German author who lived from 1824 to 1899. His literary output includes fifty-six works, with notable titles such as *Der mensch und seine stellung in natur und gesellschaft in vergangenheit, gegenwart und zukunt* and *Kraft und Stoff, oder, Grundzüge der natürlichen Weltordnung*. Other significant publications include *Kraft und Stoff. Empirisch-naturphilosophische Studien*, *L'homme selon la science*, and *Conférences sur la théorie darwinienne de la transmutation des espèces et de l'apparition du monde orgainique*.

Records from Crossref and Europeana Sparql each list five of his works. On Last.fm, his name is associated with one listener and one playcount. MusicBrainz identifies him as a male person from Germany, listing genres that include classical and classical period. His name is referenced by sixty-two other encyclopedia articles.

Synthesized by Vinony from 20 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Europeana Sparql, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Born
1824
Died
1899
Works
56

Top works

  • Der mensch und seine stellung in natur und gesellschaft in vergangenheit, gegenwart und zukunt
  • Kraft und Stoff, oder, Grundzüge der natürlichen Weltordnung
  • Taʻrīb li-Sharḥ Bukhnir ʻalá madhhab Dārwīn fī intiqāl al-anwāʻ wa-ẓuhūr al-ʻālam al-ʻuḍwī wa-iṭlāq dhālika ʻalá al-insān "maʻa baʻḍ taṣarruf fīh"
  • Kraft und Stoff. Empirisch-naturphilosophische Studien
  • L'homme selon la science

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
1
Total plays
1

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Key facts

Born
Friedrich Karl Christian Ludwig Büchner , ( 1824-03-29 ) 29 March 1824, Darmstadt , Grand Duchy of Hesse , German Confederation
Died
30 April 1899 (1899-04-30) (aged 75), Darmstadt, Grand Duchy of Hesse, German Empire
Political party
German Free-minded Party
Relatives
Georg Büchner (brother), Luise Büchner (sister)
Education
University of Giessen , University of Strasbourg , University of Würzburg , University of Vienna
Thesis
Beiträge zur Hall'schen Lehre von einem excitomotorischen Nervensystem (Contributions to the Hallerian Theory of an Excitomotor Nervous System) (1848)
Era
19th-century philosophy
Region
Western philosophy
School
German materialism
Institutions
University of Tübingen
Main interests
Philosophy of science
Notable ideas
Nature is purely physical

via Wikipedia infobox

Works in European collections

5 objects attributed to Ludwig Büchner, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

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Encyclopedic overview

Friedrich Karl Christian Ludwig Büchner (/ˈbjuːknər/; German: [ˈbyːçnɐ]; 29 March 1824 – 30 April 1899) was a German philosopher, physiologist and physician who became one of the exponents of 19th-century scientific materialism.

Biography

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ludwig Büchner” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.