Göttingen
Germany
Göttingen is a university city in Lower Saxony, Germany, first recorded as the village of Gutingi in 953. Its university, the Georgia Augusta, was founded in 1734 by George II, king of Great Britain and elector of Hanover, and opened in 1737. Beginning with Carl Friedrich Gauss it became a leading centre of mathematics and the natural sciences, reaching a peak around 1900 under David Hilbert and Felix Klein and attracting foreign students such as J. Robert Oppenheimer. Nazi civil-service laws after 1933 forced out many of its faculty, especially those of Jewish origin. In theology, Karl Barth held his first professorship at Göttingen from 1921 to 1925.
Teachers who lived here
Tobias Mayer
Tobias Mayer (1723–1762)
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777–1855)
Friedrich Wöhler
Friedrich Wöhler (1800–1882)
Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet
Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (1805–1859)
Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet
Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (1805–1859)
Robert Bunsen
Robert Bunsen (1811–1899)
Robert Bunsen
Robert Bunsen (1811–1899)
Felix Klein
Felix Klein (1849–1925)
Paul Ehrlich
Paul Ehrlich (1854–1915)
Max Planck
Max Planck (1858–1947)
David Hilbert
David Hilbert (1862–1943)
David Hilbert
David Hilbert (1862–1943)
Hermann Minkowski
Hermann Minkowski (1864–1909)
Walther Nernst
Walther Nernst (1864–1941)
Karl Schwarzschild
Karl Schwarzschild (1873–1916)
Otto Hahn
Otto Hahn (1879–1968)
Max Born
Max Born (1882–1970)
Max Born
Max Born (1882–1970)
Max Born
Max Born (1882–1970)
Karl Barth
Karl Barth (1886–1968)
professor of theology 1921–1925
Richard Courant
Richard Courant (1888–1972)
J. Robert Oppenheimer
J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904–1967)