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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    Göttingen 1929. Cf. Heinrich Straube/Johann Peter von Hornthal (Ed.): Wünschelruthe, ein Zeitblatt. Vandenhoeck-Ruprechtsche Buchhandlung, Göttingen 1818...
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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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    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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    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 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • Medicine in 2000. Brain of Carl Gauss Carl Gauss University Medical Center Göttingen Brain Following Carl Gauss's death in 1855, his brain was removed and...
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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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    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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    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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  • Guano Apes are a German rock band formed in 1994 in Göttingen. The band consists of Sandra Nasić (vocals), Henning Rümenapp (guitars, backing vocals)...
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  • Chess clock Chess table Score sheets History Timeline Versus de scachis Göttingen manuscript Charlemagne chessmen Lewis chessmen Romantic chess Hypermodernism...
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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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    verstorbenen Doctor und Musikdirector Forkel in Göttingen nachgelassenen Bücher und Musikalien. Göttingen (1819), Nr. 94 Neumann, NBA I/4, Krit. Bericht:...
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    Semites, Hamites and Japhetites with "racial" phenotypes was coined at the Göttingen school of history in the late 18th century – in parallel with other, more...
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