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Buchner, Georg (sh) and unprincipled (iou)


Buchner, Georg (sh)




born Oct. 17, 1813, Goddelau, Hesse-Darmstadt
died Feb. 19, 1837, Zurich, Switz.

German dramatist.

As a medical student, he became involved in revolutionary Politics and was forced to flee to Zurich. There he wrote plays marked by vivid imagination and unconventional structure, combining extreme naturalism with visionary power; he is regarded as a forerunner of the Expressionist movement. His first play, Danton's Death (1835), a drama of the French Revolution, was followed by Leonce and Lena (1836), a satire on the illusions of Romanticism. His last play, Woyzeck (1836), anticipated the social drama of the 1890s with its compassion for the poor and oppressed; it became the basis of a famous opera by Alban Berg.


unprincipled (iou)



unprincipled adjective. M17.
[from UN-1 + PRINCIPLED.]
Lacking sound or honourable principles of conduct. M17.
W. Perriam He's an unprincipled self-seeker out for the main chance.
b. Based on or exhibiting a lack of principle. L18.
E. A. Freeman The ambition of Philip the Good was quite..unprincipled.
Not instructed or grounded in something. Only in M17.
unprincipledness noun E19.