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    Bernhard Riemann and David Hilbert, were professors at Göttingen. Like other university towns, Göttingen has developed its own quaint traditions. On the day...
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    Göttingen railway station, known in German as Bahnhof Göttingen, is an InterCityExpress stop on Germany's domestic long-distance rail network and the...
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    Gottfried August Bürger (category University of Göttingen alumni)
    on promising to reform was in 1768 allowed to enter the University of Göttingen as a law student. As he continued his wild career, however, his grandfather...
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    Kunsthaus Göttingen is an exhibition space in Göttingen, Germany. Its focus is on contemporary art for works on paper, photography, and new media with...
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    1869 to the end of February 1870, and in Paris, Göttingen and Erlangen in the subsequent two years. Lie stated that all of the principal results were obtained...
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    They moved the household to Göttingen in the Kingdom of Hanover, where they took employment at the University of Göttingen—Jacob as a professor and head...
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    and Salzgitter. Together with Göttingen in southern Lower Saxony, they form the core of the Hannover–Braunschweig–Göttingen–Wolfsburg Metropolitan Region...
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    in turn part of the Lower Saxon Hills. It lies in the district of Göttingen east of the city of Göttingen itself, immediately south of the Nörten Forest...
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    Jacob Grimm (category Academic staff of the University of Göttingen)
    den altdeutschen Meistergesang (Göttingen, 1811) *Kinder- und Hausmärchen (Berlin, 1812–1815) (many editions) *Das Lied von Hildebrand und des Weissenbrunner...
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    editors of Lie's collected works. In 1886, Lie became a professor at Leipzig, replacing Klein, who had moved to Göttingen. In November 1889, Lie suffered...
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    David Hilbert (category Academic staff of the University of Göttingen)
    Professor of Mathematics at the University of Göttingen. During the Klein and Hilbert years, Göttingen became the preeminent institution in the mathematical...
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    Bernhard Riemann (category University of Göttingen alumni)
    chair at the University of Göttingen), he was promoted to head the mathematics department at the University of Göttingen. He was also the first to suggest...
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    Emmy Noether (category Academic staff of the University of Göttingen)
    and Felix Klein to join the mathematics department at the University of Göttingen, a world-renowned center of mathematical research. The philosophical faculty...
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    Göttingen 1929. Cf. Heinrich Straube/Johann Peter von Hornthal (Ed.): Wünschelruthe, ein Zeitblatt. Vandenhoeck-Ruprechtsche Buchhandlung, Göttingen 1818...
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    Hermann Minkowski (category Academic staff of the University of Göttingen)
    University of Königsberg, the University of Zürich, and the University of Göttingen, described variously as German, Polish, or Lithuanian-German, or Russian...
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    Karl Schwarzschild (category Academic staff of the University of Göttingen)
    until 1909, he was a professor at the prestigious Göttingen Observatory within the University of Göttingen, where he had the opportunity to work with some...
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    Hann. Münden (category Göttingen (district))
    Hannoversch Münden) is a town in Lower Saxony, Germany. Münden lies in the district of Göttingen at the confluence of the Fulda and Werra rivers, which join...
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    Werner Heisenberg (category Academic staff of the University of Göttingen)
    understanding the atom while receiving his scientific training in Munich, Göttingen and Copenhagen. Heisenberg later stated that "My mind was formed by studying...
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    Hermann Weyl (category University of Göttingen alumni)
    studied mathematics and physics in both Göttingen and Munich. His doctorate was awarded at the University of Göttingen under the supervision of David Hilbert...
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    ˈtoːt ʔʊnt das ˈmɛːtçn̩], "Death and the Maiden"), D 531; Op. 7, No. 3, is a lied composed by Franz Schubert in February 1817. It was published by Cappi und...
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    Otto Hölder (category Academic staff of the University of Göttingen)
    habilitation at the University of Göttingen, both in 1884. He was unable to get government approval for a faculty position in Göttingen, and instead was offered...
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  • Landkreis Göttingen in Lower Saxony, Germany. The village has about four hundred inhabitants. It lies some twelve kilometers west of Göttingen on the main...
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    Felix Klein (category Academic staff of the University of Göttingen)
    professorship at the University of Göttingen in 1886. From then on, until his 1913 retirement, he sought to re-establish Göttingen as the world's prime center...
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  • Frederick III "the restless" of Brunswick-Göttingen-Calenberg (born: 1424; died: 5 March 1495 in Hann. Münden), was a son of Duke William the Victorious...
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    Letters in 1868, a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen and the University of Copenhagen awarded him an honorary doctorate in...
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    Johann Christian Gottlieb Ackermann (category University of Göttingen alumni)
    and was taught there by Ernst Gottfried Baldinger. The two relocated to Göttingen where he studied, apart from medicine, the classical sciences, as a student...
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    August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben (category University of Göttingen alumni)
    1798 – 19 January 1874) was a German poet. He is best known for writing "Das Lied der Deutschen", whose third stanza is now the national anthem of Germany...
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    Furtwängler. After his promotion, he did further studies at the University of Göttingen under Emmy Noether, in what is now known as commutative algebra. Later...
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    Carl Ludwig Siegel (category University of Göttingen alumni)
    at the University of Göttingen, studying under Landau, who was his doctoral thesis supervisor (PhD in 1920). He stayed in Göttingen as a teaching and research...
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  • Sonnenstein, of which it is an Ortschaft. It lies approximately 35 km (22 mi) from the university town of Göttingen. With a population of around 1,000, it is...
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