Göttingen
Göttingen ranks 635th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Bridgeport, Connecticut, Murcia, and City of Brussels. 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. At the end of 2019, the population was 118,911. Read more on Wikipedia
Between 1087 and 1990, Göttingen was the birth place of 19 globally memorable people, including Robert Bunsen, Hermann Kolbe, and Arthur Auwers. Additionaly, 69 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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Robert Bunsen
1811 - 1899
HPI: 68.63
Rank: 1
Hermann Kolbe
1818 - 1884
HPI: 59.11
Rank: 2
Arthur Auwers
1838 - 1915
HPI: 58.37
Rank: 3
Richenza of Northeim
1087 - 1141
HPI: 56.94
Rank: 4
Leopold Gmelin
1788 - 1853
HPI: 56.85
Rank: 5
Uta Hagen
1919 - 2004
HPI: 55.11
Rank: 6
Alfred Meyer
1891 - 1945
HPI: 54.60
Rank: 7
Thomas C. Südhof
1955 - Present
HPI: 53.25
Rank: 8
Friedrich Stromeyer
1776 - 1835
HPI: 52.33
Rank: 9
Hans-Jochen Vogel
1926 - 2020
HPI: 51.53
Rank: 10
Herbert Grönemeyer
1956 - Present
HPI: 50.31
Rank: 11
Vladimir Lossky
1903 - 1958
HPI: 48.68
Rank: 12
Newly Added People Born in Göttingen
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Martin Sonneborn
1965 - Present
HPI: 38.74
Rank: 17
Roland Schimmelpfennig
1967 - Present
HPI: 36.08
Rank: 18
People Deceased in Göttingen
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Carl Friedrich Gauss
1777 - 1855
HPI: 87.89
Rank: 1
Max Planck
1858 - 1947
HPI: 81.76
Rank: 2
David Hilbert
1862 - 1943
HPI: 75.21
Rank: 3
Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet
1805 - 1859
HPI: 72.67
Rank: 4
Lou Andreas-Salomé
1861 - 1937
HPI: 72.62
Rank: 5
Johann Friedrich Herbart
1776 - 1841
HPI: 72.52
Rank: 6
Friedrich Wöhler
1800 - 1882
HPI: 72.32
Rank: 7
Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor
973 - 1024
HPI: 72.27
Rank: 8
Otto Hahn
1879 - 1968
HPI: 72.06
Rank: 9
Max Born
1882 - 1970
HPI: 71.56
Rank: 10
Otto Wallach
1847 - 1931
HPI: 69.95
Rank: 11
Wilhelm Eduard Weber
1804 - 1891
HPI: 69.24
Rank: 12
Newly Added People Deceased in Göttingen
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Gottlob Ernst Schulze
1761 - 1833
HPI: 48.53
Rank: 59
Johann Beckmann
1739 - 1811
HPI: 47.88
Rank: 62
Hans von Berlepsch
1850 - 1915
HPI: 46.85
Rank: 64
Leonard Nelson
1882 - 1927
HPI: 45.52
Rank: 66
Most individuals born in present day Göttingen were chemists (5), politicians (4), actors (2), astronomers (1), and companions (1), while most who died were mathematicians (12), physicists (12), chemists (8), biologists (8), and historians (7).
Over the past 100 years, politicians have been the top profession of globally memorable people born in Göttingen, including Hans-Jochen Vogel, Peter Struck, and Martin Sonneborn. 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.
Below is a visual represetation of the lifespans of the top 11 globally memorable people born in Göttingen since 1700.
