JAKOB WILHELM FEUERLEIN
JAKOB WILHELM FEUERLEIN (1689–1766), Professor of Theology and General Superintendent of the University, F. Reibenstein, 1747, oil on canvas, Art Collection of the University of Göttingen
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01 Gallery
JOHANN STEPHAN PÜTTER
JOHANN STEPHAN PÜTTER (1725–1807), Professor of Law, Carl Anton Friedrich Lafontaine, 1790, oil on canvas, Art Collection of the University of Göttingen
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MAGNUS CRUSE
MAGNUS CRUSE (1697–1751), Professor of Theology, F. Reibenstein, 1747, oil on canvas, Art Collection of the University of Göttingen
JOACHIM OPORIN
JOACHIM OPORIN (1695–1753), Professor of Theology, F. Reibenstein, 1747, oil on canvas, Art Collection of the University of Göttingen
PARAGONS
The various series of scholar portraits were commonly exhibited in representative halls of the University such as the library or, as is the example here in Marburg, in the auditorium. They were intended to serve as role models for the students to emulate. Furthermore, it was supposed to express tradition and class consciousness of the
GEORG HEINRICH RIBOV
GEORG HEINRICH RIBOV (1703–1774), Professor of Philosophy and Theology, F. Reibenstein, 1748, oil on canvas, Art Collection of the University of Göttingen
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University Marburg
The grand or juridical auditorium (later called the Aula) of the University Marburg in the former Dominican monastery, Ferdinand Justi, 1890, water colour drawing, Original in the Marburg state archives.
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FROM THE COUNCIL CHAMBER TO THE CELLAR
By the end of the 18th Century, the series of portraits of the Göttingen professors consisted of 40 paintings. In the beginning, they hung close together in the main conference hall (Konzilienhaus) of the University. The building was the scene of important decisions and served as a meeting place for the Göttingen scholars as well
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01 GALLERY
Shortly after the University was founded in 1737, work began in an effort to establish a gallery that would exhibit portraits of various professors. In 1748 the painter F. Reibenstein, originally from Celle, was commissioned to create a series of portraits, a process that was later continued by other various painters. Fifteen of these paintings