The University of G? ttingen was first famous for its law. /kloc-in the 0/8th century, Peter, a famous German national law master, taught here for half a century, attracting a large number of students. Austrian Chancellor klemens metternich and william von humboldt, the founder of Berlin University, are his students. By the time 1837 and 100 were founded, the University of G? ttingen was called "Law University", because almost every year, more than half of the students registered in the law school. Therefore, the University of G? ttingen became the Mecca of German public law in the18th century.
1837, the famous "Seven Gentlemen of the Gottingen Incident" happened. Seven professors of G? ttingen were expelled from the University of G? ttingen for opposing the abolition of the Constitution by the King of Hanover, and the Brothers Grimm were among them. This incident reflects the intellectuals' love for freedom and their courage to defend the Constitution. Since then, Gustav Gustav Hugo and Eichhorn have taught here in the19th century, becoming the pioneers of German historical law school. /kloc-at the end of 0/9, Ye Lin, a famous civil jurist who founded the theory of "liability for fault in contracting", taught here.
What makes Gottingen a world-famous science center is its natural science, especially mathematics. Known as "the most important mathematician", Gauss taught here in the18th century and founded the Gottingen School. Since then, Riemann, Dirichlet and jacoby have made contributions in the fields of algebra, geometry, number theory and analysis. By the19th century, famous mathematicians Hilbert and Klein attracted a large number of mathematicians to Gottingen, thus bringing the German Gottingen school of mathematics into its heyday. By the beginning of the 20th century, G? ttingen had become the undisputed mathematical center and Mecca in the world. At that time, among the students studying mathematics all over the world, the loudest slogan was "Take up your backpack and go to G? ttingen". During this period, the academic status of the University of G? ttingen reached its peak in Europe and even the world. In this half century, the number of Nobel Prize winners coming out of here ranks eighth among universities in the world, creating the "Gottingen Nobel Miracle".
In addition, otto von bismarck, the "bloody prime minister" of the German Empire, Dr. Richard Karl Freiherr von Weizsack, former president of the Federal Republic of Germany and gerhard schroder, all studied law at the University of G? ttingen. Heine, a great German poet, also received his doctorate in law here. The brothers Green taught here and wrote the first German dictionary. Edmund Husserl, a master of phenomenology, once taught here, and philosophers arthur schopenhauer, sociologists Max Weber and jurgen habermas also studied in G? ttingen.
During this period, German universities were at the top of the world and the most brilliant. European and American students are proud to study in Germany, especially the University of G? ttingen and the University of Berlin. At that time, if a scholar had no experience of studying in Germany, he would be considered as having no complete academic training. German has also become an international academic language, and even many papers in Britain and America are directly named after German.
However, World War I caused great harm to German academic circles, and international academic circles began to be hostile to German academic circles. 1933 Hitler came to power and brutally persecuted Jews. During the period of 1933-34, about 7,000 people from German universities fled to the United States. By 1940, Germany had lost more than 500 professors of natural science, 450 professors of medical science and 300 professors of humanities, which led to the retrogression of German academic level for decades. As a result, the University of G? ttingen suffered a fatal blow, and a large number of famous Jewish scientists and scholars were forced to leave G? ttingen for the United States.