University of Göttingen

The University of Göttingen, officially the Georg August University of Göttingen, is a public research university in the German city of Göttingen, Lower Saxony. It was founded in 1734 by the government of the Electorate of Hanover on the orders of George II, began admitting students in 1737 and is recognised as the oldest university in Lower Saxony. It reached its academic peak between the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as a major international centre for mathematics and physics, with scholars such as David Hilbert and Felix Klein. In this atlas it appears as the institution where Carl Friedrich Gauss studied and where he later held a chair and directed the astronomical observatory.