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1824 - Büchner was born at Darmstadt, Germany, on the 29th of March.
1842-1848 - He studied physics, chemistry, botany, mineralogy, philosophy and medicine at the University of Giessen, where he graduated with a dissertation entitled Beiträge zur Hall'schen Lehre von einem excitomotorischen Nervensystem (Contributions to the Hallerian Theory of an Excitomotor Nervous System).
1852 - He became lecturer in medicine at the University of Tübingen, where he published his great work Kraft und Stoff: Empirisch-naturphilosophische Studien (Force and Matter: Empiricophilosophical Studies).
1857 - He continued his philosophical work in defense of materialism, and published Natur und Geist (Nature and Soul).
- Ludwig Büchner's materialism was the founding ground for the freethinkers' movement in Germany.
1881 - He founded in Frankfurt the "Deutsche Freidenkerbund" (German Freethinkers League), where the first atheists gathered together publicly in that country.
1899 - He died at Darmstadt on the 1st of May.
1842-1848 - He studied physics, chemistry, botany, mineralogy, philosophy and medicine at the University of Giessen, where he graduated with a dissertation entitled Beiträge zur Hall'schen Lehre von einem excitomotorischen Nervensystem (Contributions to the Hallerian Theory of an Excitomotor Nervous System).
1852 - He became lecturer in medicine at the University of Tübingen, where he published his great work Kraft und Stoff: Empirisch-naturphilosophische Studien (Force and Matter: Empiricophilosophical Studies).
1857 - He continued his philosophical work in defense of materialism, and published Natur und Geist (Nature and Soul).
- Ludwig Büchner's materialism was the founding ground for the freethinkers' movement in Germany.
1881 - He founded in Frankfurt the "Deutsche Freidenkerbund" (German Freethinkers League), where the first atheists gathered together publicly in that country.
1899 - He died at Darmstadt on the 1st of May.
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