Adam Lux, a German enthusiast, born at Obernburg, Bavaria, in 1766, executed in Paris, Nov. 4, 1793. He was the son of a farmer, and studied medicine, but did not practise on account of his repugnance to surgical operations, and was for some time a teacher at Mentz. He became an ardent partisan of the French revolution, and after the occupation of Mentz by French troops was elected to the Rhenish-German convention, and deputed by that body in March, 1793, to represent it, together with Georg Forster, in the French convention. He subsequently conceived a romantic feeling of admiration for the Girondists, and made himself conspicuous by his eagerness to become a martyr in their cause. After their downfall he published a violent manifesto, Avis aux citoyens, against the terrorists, whom he challenged to imprison or to guillotine him. The execution of Charlotte Corday aroused his enthusiasm to the highest pitch, and he published a pamphlet extolling her heroism, and again asked as a favor to be put to death. His demonstrations became so violent that his request was granted, and he perished on the guillotine.

One of his daughters inherited his idiosyncrasies, and killed herself because she had fallen in love with Jean Paul Richter, whom she knew only by his writings, and who had remained indifferent to her passionate letters.