Quotes:Büchner, Ludwig

Boris de Zirkoff

Büchner, Ludwig. German philosopher and physician, b. at Darmstadt in 1824; d. at Darmstadt, May 1, 1899. Studied at Giessen, Strasbourg, Würzburg and Vienna. Became, 1852, lecturer in medicine at the Univ. of Tübingen, where he published his great work, Kraft und Stoff (1855). The extreme materialism of this work excited so much opposition that he was compelled to give up his position. Retired to Darmstadt where he practiced as a physician. He wrote also: Natur und Geist, 1857.—Aus Natur und Wissenschaft, 1862 and 1884.—Darwinismus und Socialismus, 1894.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 1, p. 448