JOACHIM OPORIN
JOACHIM OPORIN (1695–1753), Professor of Theology, F. Reibenstein, 1747, oil on canvas, Art Collection of the University of Göttingen
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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 …
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
THERESE FORSTER
THERESE FORSTER (1764–1829), One of the so-called “University Housekeepers”
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.
Gabrielle Emilie Marquise du Chatelet
The french mathematician, physicist and philosopher Gabrielle Emilie Marquise du Chatelet (1706-1749) was one of the few women to be included in the journal ‘Bilder-Sal’.
DOROTHEA VON SCHLÖZER PAINTING
With the open book, which contains mathematical formulas, the portrait of Dorothea von Schlözer places Schlözer in the tradition of classical scholarship. However, not all of Schlözer’s contemporaries agreed with such a representation. DOROTHEA VON SCHLÖZER (1770–1825), One of the so-called “University Housekeepers”, Friedrich Carl Gröger, around 1794, oil on canvas, State and University Library of …
MAX VOIT: PORTRAITS OF TWO CENTURIES OF GÖTTINGEN PROFESSORS
MAX VOIT: PORTRAITS OF TWO CENTURIES OF GÖTTINGEN PROFESSORS (1737–1937), Göttingen 1937
LUDWIG PRANDTL
When you’re looking at this photograph, can you account for the other people who were involved in the production of the flow channel without whom Ludwig Prandtl, Head of the Aerodynamic Research Station Göttingen, would not have become the “father of flow research”? LUDWIG PRANDTL (1875–1953), 1930s, photograph (reproduction), City Museum Göttingen
ARNOLD EUCKEN AND HIS FIANCEE FRITZI BRAUSEWETTER
ARNOLD EUCKEN (1884–1950) AND HIS FIANCEE FRITZI BRAUSEWETTER (1895–1955), At the time of the photographs, Arnold Eucken was a private lecturer at the Chemical Institute of the University of Göttingen 1911, Photograph (reproduction), Museum of Göttingen Chemistry, University of Göttingen