Friedrich Ludwig Weidig
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Friedrich Ludwig Weidig was a German Protestant theologian, pastor, activist, teacher and journalist. Initially working as a teacher in Butzbach, he then spent a short time as a pastor in Ober-Gleen,
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Grave of Friedrich Ludwig Weidig in the Alter Friedhof in Darmstadt
Georg Büchner
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Karl Georg Büchner was a German dramatist and writer of poetry and prose, considered part of the Young Germany movement. He was also a revolutionary and the brother of physician and philosopher Ludwig
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…1834 he still published four illegal issues of "Leuchter und Beleuchter für Hessen (oder der Hessen Notwehr)". The same year saw his first meeting with Georg Büchner, with whom he worked on a manuscript that Weidig then published against Büchner's wishes as Der Hessische Landbote. Weidig and his students also organised…
Pencil drawing of Büchner, c. 1835
Büchner in a 1833/34 drawing by his friend Alexis Muston
Gravestone of Georg Büchner on Germaniahügel in Zürich-Oberstrass