ABSTRACT
GOETHE alone excepted, no writer in the German language, of any epoch, shows more unmistakable signs of genius than Georg Büchner, whose creative work, with all its immense originality and promise, came to an end almost before it was begun. He lived only twenty-three years and four months, and his significant writings were all composed during the last two years of his life, between February 1835 and February 1837: small wonder, then, that he never fully developed or matured.
