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Members of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities
- Johann Wolfgang von GoetheOn the 13th of October 1806, Napoleon's army poured into Weimar, and the least disciplined of the French soldiers, the so-called spoon guards, broke into the…
- Claude Louis BertholletClaude Louis Berthollet entered the world on the 9th of December 1748 in Talloires. This small town sat near Annecy within the Duchy of Savoy.
- Heinrich Jacob GoldschmidtHeinrich Jacob Goldschmidt entered the world on the 12th of April 1857 in Prague, Austria-Hungary. He studied chemistry at Charles University during his…
- Werner HeisenbergWerner Karl Heisenberg was born on the 5th of December 1901 in Würzburg, Germany. His father Kaspar Ernst August Heisenberg taught classical languages and…
- Carl Friedrich GaussJohann Carl Friedrich Gauss was nineteen years old when he solved a problem the Ancient Greeks had left open for more than two thousand years.
- Jacob GrimmJacob Ludwig Karl Grimm entered the world on the 4th of January 1785 in Hanau, Hesse-Kassel. His father Philipp worked as a lawyer but died while Jacob was…
- Alexander von HumboldtOn the 14th of September 1769, a boy named Alexander von Humboldt drew his first breath in Berlin. His father held the rank of major in the Prussian Army and…
- Max BornMax Born entered the University of Göttingen in April 1904, stepping into a world dominated by three renowned mathematicians.
- Svante ArrheniusSvante August Arrhenius was born on the 19th of February 1859 at Vik near Uppsala in Sweden. His father Svante Gustav worked as a land surveyor for Uppsala…
- Niels BohrNiels Bohr once described the tension at the heart of all good teaching as the struggle between "Klarheit und Wahrheit" - clarity and truth.
- Jacob BurckhardtCarl Jacob Christoph Burckhardt entered the world on the 25th of May 1818 in Basel. He was born into a Protestant clergyman family and grew up within the…
- Peter Andreas MunchPeter Andreas Munch entered the world on the 15th of December 1810 in Christiania. His father Edvard Storm Munch served as a parish priest for the Church of…