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Göttingen ranks 604th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Savannah, Georgia, Camberwell, and Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Memorable people born in Göttingen include Robert Bunsen, Hermann Kolbe, and Arthur Auwers. Memorable people who died in Göttingen include Carl Friedrich Gauss, Max Planck, and David Hilbert. Göttingen has been the birth place of many chemists, and politicians and the death place of many mathematicians, and physicists. Göttingen is located in Germany.

Göttingen is a university city in Lower Saxony, central Germany, the capital of the eponymous district. The River Leine runs through it. According to the 2022 German census, the population of Göttingen was 124,548. Read more on Wikipedia

People

Between 1087 and 2002, Göttingen was the birth place of 23 globally memorable people, including Robert Bunsen, Hermann Kolbe, and Arthur Auwers. Additionaly, 73 globally memorable people have passed away in Göttingen including Carl Friedrich Gauss, Max Planck, and David Hilbert. Interestingly, more notably known people have passed away in Göttingen than were born there.

People Born in Göttingen

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People Deceased in Göttingen

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Occupations

Most individuals born in present day Göttingen were chemists (5), politicians (5), actors (2), musicians (2), and soccer players (2),  while most who died were mathematicians (12), physicists (12), chemists (8), biologists (8), and historians (8).

Over the past 100 years, politicians have been the top profession of globally memorable people born in Göttingen, including Bernhard Vogel, Hans-Jochen Vogel, and Peter Struck. Whereas, throughout history, chemists have been the profession with the most memorable people born in present day Göttingen, including Robert Bunsen, Hermann Kolbe, and Leopold Gmelin.

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Overlapping Lives

Below is a visual represetation of the lifespans of the top 13 globally memorable people born in Göttingen since 1700.