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34 unusual facts about Göttingen


Arianna in Creta

The Göttingen Handel Festival presented the work in 1999, and it was also performed by Les Talens Lyriques under Christophe Rousset in 2002, in venues in Germany and France.

Bundesbahn Central Offices

After 1945, the functions of the former Reichsbahn Central Offices (Reichsbahn-Zentralämter, RZA) in Berlin were transferred first to Göttingen, then from 1950 to Minden and in parallel also at Munich.

Charles de Villers

In 1811, Villers was appointed Professor of Philosophy at the Georg-August University of Göttingen.

Charles G. Coulon

Charles G. Coulon (b. 16 Feb. 1825, Göttingen, Germany – d. 2 Feb. 1881) was the sixth mayor of the city of Indianapolis, Indiana.

Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day

"Christmas-Eve" is an account of a vision in which the narrator is taken to a Nonconformist church, to St. Peter's in Rome, to a Göttingen lecture theatre where a practitioner of the Higher criticism is discoursing on the Christian myth, and back to the Nonconformist church.

Dieter Langbein

After his diploma in physics in 1956 and his thesis on solid state physics in 1958 he went to the Institute of Theoretical Physics at Göttingen to work with Prof. Hund in investigating galvanomagnetic effects.

Elisabeth of Brandenburg, Duchess of Brunswick-Calenberg-Göttingen

Despite the age difference, it was obviously a marriage without insurmountable conflicts, perhaps because Eric mostly stayed on his Erichsburg and Calenberg Castle, while Elisabeth resided at her wittum Münden.

Elisabeth managed to force Eric into giving her a more profitable wittum than their marriage contract required: instead of the district of Calenberg in the Unterwald region, which contained Calenberg Castle, Neustadt and Hanover and provided little revenue, she received Oberwald, with the towns of Münden, Northeim and Göttingen, which provided more revenue and greated political weight.

Elisabeth died a year later, in 1558, in Ilmenau, apparently completely exhausted and with a "broken heart." Her children commissioned an epitaph with her portrait by the sculptor Sigmund Linger from Innsbruck, which was erected in 1566 in the St. Giles Chapel of the St. John's Church in Schleusingen.

On October 6, she informed Landgrave Philip I of Hesse of her conversion and with his assistance, invited the reformer Anton Corvinus to move from nearby Witzenhausen to Münden.

Ernest I, Duke of Brunswick-Göttingen

It consisted at this time of the former County of Northeim, the cities of Göttingen, Uslar, Dransfeld, Munden and Gieselwerder and one half of Moringen.

Flavio

There were no further revivals until it was rediscovered and performed in Göttingen on 2 July 1967.

Göttingen International Handel Festival

The Göttingen International Handel Festival (German, Internationale Händel-Festspiele Göttingen) is a German festival of baroque music, based in Göttingen, Germany.

Günther Vollmer

On November 18, 1944, Vollmer gave a lecture in Göttingen to the National Socialist Lawyers' Association with Rudolf Smend (January 15, 1882–July 5, 1975), a jurist and law professor.

International Max Planck Research School for Neurosciences

As Göttingen is regarded as one of the focal points in neuroscience research in Germany, this international graduate school is providing various and diverse research opportunities in the fields of the neuroscience, biochemistry, structural biology and related disciplines.

Jens Reich

Jens Georg Reich (born 26 March 1939 in Göttingen) is a German scientist and a member of the German Ethics Council.

Joachim Nicolas Eggert

These studies were followed, at the first years of the 19th century, by studies in musical theory in Braunschweig and Göttingen, with Johann Nikolaus Forkel as a teacher.

Johann Caspar Horner

At the beginning he wanted to be a priest, but later he went to Göttingen, where he learnt astronomy.

Karl Alois, Prince Lichnowsky

In his youth (1776 to 1782) he was a law student, studying in Leipzig and in Göttingen.

Lehnin Abbey

Manuscripts of the "prophecy", which was first printed in 1722, existed in Berlin, Dresden, Breslau and Göttingen.

Lucy Hillebrand

Lucy Hillebrand (6 March 1906, Mainz – 14 September 1997, Göttingen) was a German architect.

After her studios in Frankfurt and Hanover were destroyed during the war, she moved to Göttingen where she was one of the first architects to receive commissions for public buildings.

Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry

The Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry (Karl Friedrich Bonhoeffer Institute) in Göttingen is a research institute of the Max Planck Society.

Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization

The Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization in Göttingen, Germany, is a research institute for investigations of complex non-equilibrium systems, particularly in physics and biology.

Max Planck Institute for Physics and Astrophysics

The institute was founded in 1958 as a successor to the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Göttingen.

Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research

The MPI for Solar System Research offers the PhD programme "International Max-Planck Research School (IMPRS) on Physical Processes in the Solar System and Beyond" together with the University of Göttingen and the Technical University of Braunschweig.

The Institute together with the Max Planck Society decided to move the institute closer to the University of Göttingen.

Max Planck Institute of Experimental Endocrinology

The institute was closed 2006 and parts of its research activities were moved to the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen.

Moritz Roth

He studied medicine at Würzburg, Göttingen, Berlin and Basel, where he received his doctorate in 1864.

Otto I, Duke of Brunswick-Göttingen

By this time, he had been excommunicated, which is why he was buried in unhallowed ground north of the church of Wiebrechtshausen monastery at Northeim.

Otto II, Duke of Brunswick-Göttingen

He succeeded in 1407, together with the City of Göttingen 1407, to storm the castle at Jühnde, and he also forced the Lords of Adelebsen, Hardenberg and Schwicheldt to respect the peace.

Seesen and Gandersheim were separated from Brunswick-Göttingen and attached to Henry's part of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel.

Reinhard Süring

He studied natural sciences and mathematics at Göttingen, Marburg and Berlin, obtaining his doctorate in 1890 with a thesis titled Temperaturabnahme in Gebirgsgegenden in ihrer Abhängigkeit von der Bewölkung.

The Strangest Man

Farmelo charts Dirac's life from his upbringing in early 20th-century Bristol, through his years in Cambridge, Göttingen and Princeton up until his death in 1984, and that of his wife 18 years later.


August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben

The son of a merchant and Mayor of his native city, he was educated at the classical schools of Helmstedt and Braunschweig, and afterwards at the universities of Göttingen and Bonn.

Carl Hermann Credner

Credner was born at Gotha, educated at Breslau and Göttingen, and took the degree of Ph.D. at Breslau in 1864.

County of Brunswick

The County developed out of the possessions of the Brunonen dynasty centered on the town of Brunswick and was enlarged by the inheritances of Henry the Fat of Northeim around Northeim and Göttingen and a part of the Billung inheritance around Lüneburg, which fell to the House of Welf in 1106.

Emanuel Hirsch

Emanuel Hirsch (June 14, 1886/1888, Bentwisch, Mecklenburg - July 17, 1972, Göttingen) was a German Protestant theologian and also a member of the Nazi Party and the Nazi supporting body.

Erich Hückel

On receiving his doctorate, he became an assistant at Göttingen, but soon became an assistant to Peter Debye at Zürich.

Ernst Friedrich Wilhelm Klinkerfues

Ernst Friedrich Wilhelm Klinkerfues (29 March 1827 in Hofgeismar – 28 January 1884 in Göttingen) was a German astronomer.

Etzenborn

The nearest large city is Göttingen, the Landkreis capital, about 25 km to the north-west by road, with Duderstadt just 12 km to the north-east and Heiligenstadt the same distance south.

Franz Rellich

In 1934 he became Privatdozent in Marburg, in 1942 professor in Dresden, and in 1946 director of the Mathematical Institute in Göttingen, being instrumental in its reconstruction.

He studied from 1924 to 1929 at the universities of Graz and Göttingen and received his doctor's degree in 1929 under Richard Courant at Georg August University of Göttingen with the thesis about "Verallgemeinerung der Riemannschen Integrationsmethode auf Differentialgleichungen n-ter Ordnung in zwei Veränderlichen" ("Generalization of Riemann's integration method on differential equations of n-th order in two variables").

Georg Nöbeling

Born and raised in Lüdenscheid, Nöbeling studied mathematics and physics in Göttingen and Vienna where he was a student of Karl Menger and received his PhD in 1931 on a generalization of the embedding theorem, which for one special case can be visualized by the Menger sponge.

German Aerospace Center

In the context of DLR's initiatives to promote young research talent, ten DLR School Labs were set up in Berlin-Adlershof, Braunschweig, Bremen, Cologne-Porz, Dortmund, Göttingen, Hamburg-Harburg, Lampoldshausen/Stuttgart, Neustrelitz, and Oberpfaffenhofen over the past years.

Göttingen Manifesto

The Göttingen Manifesto was a declaration of 18 leading nuclear scientists of West Germany (among them the Nobel laureates Otto Hahn, Max Born, Werner Heisenberg and Max von Laue) against arming the West German army with tactical nuclear weapons in the 1950s, the early part of the Cold War, as the West German government under chancellor Adenauer had suggested.

Gross Lengden

Gross Lengden is a village in the Gleichen in the Göttingen district of Lower Saxony, Germany, about ten kilometers east of Göttingen.

Hanns-Josef Ortheil

In Germany he attended the Mainz Rabanus-Maurus-Gymnasium, and then the Universities of Mainz, Göttingen, Paris and Rome.

Haridwar Singh

He obtained his PhD in Solid Rocket Propellant Combustion from Pune University and Post-doctoral Research from Max-Planck Institute, Göttingen, Germany, during 1985-86.

Haußelberg

In 1820 King George IV of England tasked the Professor of Astronomy and Director of the Observatory at Göttingen University, Carl Friedrich Gauss, to survey the Kingdom of Hanover.

Heinrich von Herford

Potthast, Chronicon Henrici de Hervordia (Göttingen, 1859), Diss.

Heinz Maier-Leibnitz

Bothe had first met Maier-Leibnitz while on a recruiting trip to the University of Göttingen during which Robert Pohl and Georg Joos highly recommended Maier-Leibnitz for his intelligence and creativity.

Innerste Valley Railway

The cycle path is part of the Lower Saxon long-distance route (RFW No. 5), the Weser-Harz-Heide cycle route, which runs from the Lüneburg Heath over the Harz to Rhumequelle, then via Göttingen to Hann. Münden.

Jakob Yngvason

Yngvason was assistant professor at the University of Göttingen 1973–1978, 1978–1985 research scientist at the Science Institute of the University of Iceland and 1985–1996 professor of theoretical physics at the University of Iceland.

Johann Heinrich Gottlob Justi

In Göttingen Justi started his systematic study of contemporary French works, in particular Montesquieu's Spirit of the Laws.

John Charles Fields

Disillusioned with the state of mathematical research in North America at the time, he left for Europe in 1891, locating primarily in Berlin, Göttingen and Paris, where he associated with some of the greatest mathematical minds of the time, including Karl Weierstrass, Felix Klein, Ferdinand Georg Frobenius and Max Planck.

Josef Mattauch

Mattauch was one of the Göttinger Achtzehn (Göttingen eighteen), a group of eighteen leading nuclear researchers of the Federal Republic of Germany who in 1957 wrote a manifesto (Göttinger Manifest, Göttinger Erklärung) opposing chancellor Konrad Adenauer and defense secretary Franz-Josef Strauß's move to arm the West German army with tactical nuclear weapons.

Mackenröder Spitze

The heavily forested hill is located on the eastern escarpment of the Göttingen Forest, a southern part of the Leine Uplands, about 8 km east of the Göttingen town centre and just under 1 kilometre northwest of Mackenrode, a village in the southwest of the municipality of Landolfshausen.

Marburg Journal of Religion

The editorial team was broadened in 1999 to include Peter Antes (Hannover) and Andreas Grünschloß (Göttingen) and in 2007 Edith Franke (Marburg).

Martin Krampen

Martin Krampen (born on March 9, 1928, Siegen) is a leading German semiotician, semiotics Professor in Göttingen.

Meridian circle

In the United Kingdom the transit instrument and mural circle continued till the middle of the 19th century to be the principal instrument in observatories, the first transit circle constructed there being that at Greenwich (mounted in 1850) but on the continent the transit circle superseded them from the years 1818-1819, when two circles by Johann Georg Repsold and by Reichenbach were mounted at Göttingen, and one by Reichenbach at Königsberg.

Norbert Lossau

Lossau studied the Finnish language and Scandinavian studies at the Universities of Bonn and Göttingen, where he graduated in 1988 with a Master's degree.

Principality of Göttingen

At this time, the territory consisted of the regions formerly owned by the Counts of Northeim, the towns of Göttingen, Uslar, Dransfeld, Münden, Gieselwerder at the border with Hesse and half of Moringen.

Reinhausen

Reinhausen is the largest village in the municipality (Gemeinde) Gleichen in the district Göttingen, Germany.

Royal Hanoverian State Railways

The Göttingen–Arenshausen and NortheimEllrich lines were not completed until after the transfer of the Hanoverian State Railways to Prussia after the War of 1866.

Wacław Seweryn Rzewuski

He eventually became a member of the scientific society in Göttingen, the Academy of Sciences in Munich and a member of the Society of Friends of Science in Warsaw.

Wetter, Hesse

North to south through the town's municipal area runs the Federal Highway (Bundesstraße) B 252 from eastern Westphalia by way of Korbach and Frankenberg and on to Göttingen (in the community of Lahntal).

William Ashbrook Kellerman

In 1879, the Kellermans moved to Germany, where he attended the Universities of Göttingen and Zurich, where he obtained his Ph.D. in 1881.

Wöllmarshausen

Wöllmarshausen is a village in the Garte valley in the municipality (Gemeinde) Gleichen in the district Göttingen, Germany.