Inklusion / Exklusion

INCLUSION – EXCLUSION

The University has always been an exclusive place. Whereas in the 18th century it was reserved for few learned families, the research university of the 19th century was decisively a place for the aspiring educated middle classes, closing themselves off from the “bottom ranks”. Social advancement via a university career was an exception well into

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THE UNIVERSITY HOUSEKEEPERS

In the 18th century, the private household and the scientific workspace were not mutually exclusive. Many scholars taught at home, their books and collections were their private property. This enabled many women, who worked in professor households, to be scientifically active. The so-called “University housekeepers”, such as Dorothea von Schlözer, attained great fame. As professor’s

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INVISIBLE HELPERS

With the emergence of scientific understanding based on observation and experimentation, the 17th century also saw the need for craftsmanship at the university. Scientists now used instruments to observe, measure and analyse data that must be designed, repaired and maintained. The construction and execution of experiments also required many helpers and skilled hands. Then, as

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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

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THE GÖTTINGEN CHEMIST RICHARD ZSIGMONDY WITH HIS SPANISH COLLEAGUE ANTONIO DE GREGORIO ROCASOLANO

THE GÖTTINGEN CHEMIST RICHARD ZSIGMONDY (1865-1929) WITH HIS SPANISH COLLEAGUE ANTONIO DE GREGORIO ROCASOLANO (1873-1941), working with the immersion ultramicroscope, developed by Zsigmondy and the Göttingen company Winkel,, circa 1920, Photograph (reproduction), Museum of Göttingen Chemistry, University of Göttingen

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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

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