Tübingen (deu)

Tübingen

Tübingen ranks 892nd in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Kortrijk, Schenectady, New York, and Kumasi. Memorable people born in Tübingen include Johann Friedrich Gmelin, Johann Georg Gmelin, and Ludwig Uhland. Memorable people who died in Tübingen include Friedrich Hölderlin, Kurt Georg Kiesinger, and Julius Lothar Meyer. Tübingen has been the birth place of many biologists and physicians and the death place of many politicians and philosophers. Tübingen is located in Germany.

Tübingen is a traditional university city in central Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated 30 km (19 mi) south of the state capital, Stuttgart, and developed on both sides of the Neckar and Ammer rivers. As of 2014 about one in three of the 90,000 people living in Tübingen is a student. As of the 2018/2019 winter semester, 27,665 students attend the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen. The city has the lowest median age in Germany, in part due to its status as a university city. As of December 31, 2015, the average age of a citizen of Tübingen is 39.1 years. Read more on Wikipedia