Göttingen
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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Robert Bunsen
CHEMIST
1811 - 1899
HPI: 69.16
Rank: 1
Hermann Kolbe
CHEMIST
1818 - 1884
HPI: 61.20
Rank: 2
Arthur Auwers
ASTRONOMER
1838 - 1915
HPI: 58.88
Rank: 3
Richenza of Northeim
COMPANION
1087 - 1141
HPI: 57.77
Rank: 4
Leopold Gmelin
CHEMIST
1788 - 1853
HPI: 57.75
Rank: 5
Uta Hagen
ACTOR
1919 - 2004
HPI: 57.31
Rank: 6
Thomas C. Südhof
CHEMIST
1955 - Present
HPI: 56.15
Rank: 7
Johannes Heinrich Schultz
PSYCHOLOGIST
1884 - 1970
HPI: 56.05
Rank: 8
Alfred Meyer
POLITICIAN
1891 - 1945
HPI: 54.99
Rank: 9
Friedrich Stromeyer
CHEMIST
1776 - 1835
HPI: 53.61
Rank: 10
Hans-Jochen Vogel
POLITICIAN
1926 - 2020
HPI: 52.68
Rank: 11
Herbert Grönemeyer
MUSICIAN
1956 - Present
HPI: 52.49
Rank: 12
Newly Added People Born in Göttingen
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PSYCHOLOGIST
1884 - 1970
HPI: 56.05
Rank: 8
Bernhard Vogel
POLITICIAN
1932 - Present
HPI: 45.65
Rank: 17
TheFatRat
MUSICIAN
1979 - Present
HPI: 39.60
Rank: 19
Ansgar Knauff
SOCCER PLAYER
2002 - Present
HPI: 29.38
Rank: 22
People Deceased in Göttingen
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Carl Friedrich Gauss
MATHEMATICIAN
1777 - 1855
HPI: 87.70
Rank: 1
Max Planck
PHYSICIST
1858 - 1947
HPI: 82.51
Rank: 2
David Hilbert
MATHEMATICIAN
1862 - 1943
HPI: 76.58
Rank: 3
Max Born
PHYSICIST
1882 - 1970
HPI: 75.00
Rank: 4
Otto Hahn
CHEMIST
1879 - 1968
HPI: 73.37
Rank: 5
Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet
MATHEMATICIAN
1805 - 1859
HPI: 73.33
Rank: 6
Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor
POLITICIAN
973 - 1024
HPI: 73.07
Rank: 7
Johann Friedrich Herbart
PHILOSOPHER
1776 - 1841
HPI: 72.78
Rank: 8
Lou Andreas-Salomé
WRITER
1861 - 1937
HPI: 72.60
Rank: 9
Friedrich Wöhler
CHEMIST
1800 - 1882
HPI: 72.13
Rank: 10
Otto Wallach
CHEMIST
1847 - 1931
HPI: 71.29
Rank: 11
Wilhelm Eduard Weber
PHYSICIST
1804 - 1891
HPI: 69.49
Rank: 12
Newly Added People Deceased in Göttingen
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Gustav Hugo
HISTORIAN
1764 - 1844
HPI: 54.73
Rank: 42
Fritz-Hubert Gräser
MILITARY PERSONNEL
1888 - 1960
HPI: 49.32
Rank: 64
Friedrich Gogarten
PHILOSOPHER
1887 - 1967
HPI: 47.89
Rank: 69
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).
Occupational Trends
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 Bernhard Vogel. 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.
Places
Overlapping Lives
Below is a visual represetation of the lifespans of the top 12 globally memorable people born in Göttingen since 1700.
