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MAX VOIT: PORTRAITS OF TWO CENTURIES OF GÖTTINGEN PROFESSORS (1737–1937), Göttingen 1937

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 (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

DOROTHEA VON SCHLÖZER (1770–1825), Philosopher and one of the so-called “University Housekeepers”, Silhouettes from Gregorius von Berzeviczy’s friendship album, artist unknown, around 1784-1786, Silhouettes (reproduction), Art Collection of the University of Göttingen

THERESE FORSTER (1764–1829), Author, translator, editor and one of the so-called “University Housekeepers”, Silhouettes from Gregorius von Berzeviczy’ friendship album, artist unknown, around 1784-1786, Silhouettes (reproduction), Art Collection of the University of Göttingen

SOPHIA MARGARETHE DOROTHEA FORKEL (1765–1853), Author, translator of contemporary political works and one of the so-called “University Housekeepers”, Silhouettes from Gregorius von Berzeviczy’ friendship album, artist unknown, around 1784-1786, Silhouettes (reproduction), Art Collection of the University of Göttingen

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