Qualla: University of Göttingen https://qualla.com/university-of-gottingen en-us © 2026 Bendyline Tue, 11 Aug 2026 13:49:15 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/p/j/university-of-gottingen-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: University of Göttingen https://qualla.com/university-of-gottingen University of Göttingen: Introduction https://qualla.com/university-of-gottingen/ Photo credit CC BY-SA 3.0. At a dinner in 1934, the Nazi education minister Bernhard Rust turned to David Hilbert and asked how mathematics was faring in Goettingen now that it had been freed of Jewish influence. Hilbert, by then the most famous mathematician in Germany, told him there was no mathematics in Goettingen any more. It was not a debating point. Within about a year the faculty that had drawn students from every continent had been dismissed, driven abroad, or frightened into silence, and a two-hundred-year run as one of the intellectual centres of the world had been shut down by its own government.

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]]> Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/p/j/university-of-gottingen-wp/u1pj-university-of-g-ttingen-where-the-mathematics-was.mp3 0:06 4 full University of Göttingen: The Great Purge https://qualla.com/university-of-gottingen/ Photo credit Unknown authorUnknown author Publisher: Mathematical Association of America [3], Brooklyn Museum [4], Agnes Scott College [5], [6], Public domain. In 1933 the campaign against what the regime called Jewish physics reached Goettingen, and the faculty was taken apart within months. Max Born, James Franck, Victor Goldschmidt, Eugene Wigner, Leo Szilard, Edward Teller, Edmund Landau, Emmy Noether and Richard Courant were dismis...

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]]> Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/p/j/university-of-gottingen-wp/u1pj-university-of-g-ttingen-the-great-purge.mp3 0:06 5 full University of Göttingen: What Came Back https://qualla.com/university-of-gottingen/ Photo credit Etienne Ansotte, © European Union, 2021, CC BY 4.0. Goettingen was the first university in the western occupation zones to reopen, under British control, in 1945, and it rebuilt into something substantial rather than something legendary. Jurgen Habermas studied here; so did Richard von Weizsaecker, later President of Germany, and ...

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