revolutionary playwright, and Luise Büchner, a women's rights advocate; and the uncle of Ernst Büchner, inventor of the Büchner flask. Notes References Andreas Daum, Wissenschaftspopularisierung im 19. Jahrhundert: Bürgerliche Kultur, naturwissenschaftliche Bildung und die deutsche Öffentlichkeit, 1848–1914. Munich: Oldenbourg, 1998, . Fredrick Gregory: Scientific Materialism in Nineteenth Century Germany, Springer, Berlin u.a. 1977, Attribution External links Biography and bibliography in the Virtual Laboratory of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science Complete scanned text of Büchner's Force and Matter 1824 births 1899 deaths 19th-century atheists 19th-century German non-fiction writers 19th-century German philosophers Atheist philosophers German consciousness researchers and theorists Critics of religions Freethought writers German atheists German humanists German male non-fiction writers German cognitive neuroscientists 19th-century German physicians German physiologists Materialists Members of the Second Chamber of the Estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse Ontologists Physicians from Darmstadt Philosophers of science Philosophers of technology Founding members of the Freies Deutsches Hochstift