Innate inside Goddelau touching Darmstadt, Germany, as the boy of the doctor, Büchner frequented a Humanist secondary school that focused on languages, including modern languages (French, Italian and English). All the same Büchner exposed medicine in Strasbourg.

Within 1828 he became interested around politics and joined a circle of Shakespeare aficionados which later on probably became a Giessen and Darmstadt section of the "Gesellschaft für Menschenrechte" (Society for Man Rights). Within Strasbourg, he had to understand each French literature and political thought. Inside 1835, Büchner translated two works by Victor Hugo, Lucrèce Borgia and Marie Tudor. 2 years late, his thesis, "Mémoire sur le Système Nerveux du Barbeaux (Cyprinus barbus L.)" was promulgated inside Paris and Strasbourg. He was influenced per utopian communist theories of Babeuf and Saint-Simon.

When he continued his studies within Giessen he established a secret society dedicated to the radical induce. He printed leaflets known as Der Hessische Landbote, aimed at a political education (or indoctrination, depending in point of review) of peasants. Nevertheless, ascribable treason Büchner had to leave a united states & fled to France.

Within 1835, his first play, Dantons Tod, all about a French revolution, was published, followed by Lenz (first part published around Karl Gutzkow's and Wienberg's Deutsche Revue, which was banned before long). Within 1836 his second play, Leonce & Lena, followed (just about a nobility). His bare & best known play, Woyzeck, is the first literary act within German whose independent characters come members of the working class. Promulgated posthumously, it became a basis for Alban Berg's opera Wozzeck (premiered 1925).

Büchner was one of a lesser known German authors whilst Karl-Emil Franzos edited his works, which later in were the major influence on naturalism. Arnold Zweig called Lenz, Büchner's only act of prose, a "beginning of modern European prose". Lenz occurs as novella based on the life of the Sturm und Drang poet Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz.

He died within Zürich, shortly after he experienced begun lecture at a university.