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Göttingen was also the long-time home of the famous mathematician, Carl Friedrich Gauss. I think that he, and also possibly Felix Klein should be mentioned on this page.

I agree...someone should put that in.

The Georgia Augusta is also the university, that the German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder went to.

On my screen, the first time it appears, the word Goettingen is followed by a question mark. I think this has to do with IE html compatibility. Can some-one fix this?

This has to do with it being part of an pronunciation file. If you click on Göttingen, you should be able to listen to German pronunciation.

Why isn't the professional soccer team Goe 07 (http://www.svg-goettingen.de/) listed in the sports section, whereas a cricket team is listed. What about basketball?

Please, could you all sign (with --~~~~!)? I can't see who says what! However, what I have to say is:

1.:Yes, Schröder studied in Göttingen. Put that in.

2.:Yes, the scientists were here. Put that in.

3.:I don't see a quanstion mark.

--SymTec ltd. 19:29, 2 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi all.. I am revising the history section of this page... the material i am puting in is essentially nothing more but a translation of the equivalent page on the german version of Goettingen, which is very extensive. -- Blueil77

should Edith Stein be mentioned? http://www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=102635

Heine and Goethe should be mentioned. It would be poetic to include Heine's "description" of the city ("famous for its university and sausages" and/or "the inhabitants of Göttingen may be divided into students, professors, Philistines, and cattle" and with women who . . .) beyond which there is no life. Kdammers (talk) 05:31, 27 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

what?[edit]

according to the origins of gotingen...how can the first mention of the village be 953AD and the creation be from 1100 ??? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.33.138.137 (talk) 17:29, 10 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

popular culture[edit]

How about having a section on G in pop culture/lit? E.g., Barabar's song, some mysteries set in G, the board game set in the city.... Kdammers (talk) 02:49, 19 August 2009 (UTC) -Here are some books: Rote Straße: Göttingen Krimi (Broschiert) von Wolf S. Dietrich ; Johannisfeuer: Göttingen Krimi von Wolf S. Dietrich von Prolibris Verlag Rolf Wagner; Die Wächter von Göttingen: Fantastische Geschichten aus dem mittelalterlichen Südniedersachsen von Ulrich Drees, Eiko Lajcsak, Markus Ritter, und Volkhart Wagner von Stein-Medien ; Hexenfeuer. Ein Hansekrimi. Tatort Göttingen, von Frank Goyke; and there's presumably another one by Dietrich.Kdammers (talk) 03:01, 19 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

French singer Barbara wrote a very well-known song, here in France, named "Göttingen". Perhaps we should add it in the popular culture section? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.102.243.184 (talk) 12:41, 21 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The television series Tatort was set in the town from 2019 through (planned) February 2024. Source: https://bnnbreaking.com/arts/tatort-departs-from-gottingen-maria-furtwanglers-character-returns-to-hanover/ 2600:6C67:1C00:5F7E:B829:D709:B7ED:C614 (talk) 03:57, 22 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Low German?![edit]

Why the * is the Low German pronunciation given here? You will never hear it in or around Göttingen, which is well south of the language border. I'm taking it out. —Wegesrand (talk) 12:01, 15 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Actually there are still native Low German speakers in the villages around Göttingen and the local paper (Göttinger Tageblatt) used to have a page in Low German up until at least the early '90s (possibly later, but I left in 94). 86.171.31.171 (talk) 19:37, 19 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Notable people born in Gottingen[edit]

Who is Jana Gray? All the references I found are to genealogy. Respectfully, Tiyang (talk) 09:30, 27 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Sports teams[edit]

The top soccer team in the '90s and at least up to 2005 was Goettingen 07 (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/SVG_G%C3%B6ttingen_07). They were as high as the Oberliga Nord, but since I don't know the difference these days between amateur and professional, I haven't added them, but they should be included.

There is also the RSV Göttingen 05, with a number of teams in various sports. Kdammers (talk) 11:49, 18 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The top soccer team in 1970-2000 was consistently SC Göttingen 05. "Göttingen 07" (locally almost always referred to as "SVG") was always the second team in town - there may have been one or two seasons where SVG was above 05 in the league but that would have been exceptional (I was a youth player for one of the SVG reserve teams around that time). "05" used to be a top amateur team having a couple of close battles for promotion to the professional leagues. Notably narrowly loosing a promotion playoff to Vfl Wolfsburg in the early 1990s. And again in the early 2000s to Holstein Kiel. "05" went bankrupt in 2003, went through some merges and name changes (the RSV 05 name comes from that area). SVG closely followed suit with financial problems. Both have struggled ever since. 86.146.30.208 (talk) 09:46, 31 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Jacobikirche[edit]

"St. Jacobi (St. James's, often mistakenly called St. Jacob's), " 1. Why does the photo have the English name? I've never heard it used by anyone, by even native speakers of English who know no German when visiting Goettingen? 2. IF we're going to translate, why is "Jacob" wrong? I'm not a Christian and don't know much about saints, but http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James,_son_of_Zebedee indicates that St. Jacob and St. James are one and the same -- and there are churches with teh former name, e.g., saintjacobschurch.com/, a Lutheran church in the U.S. 211.225.39.71 (talk) 01:48, 5 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Transport![edit]

I'm planning to move to the city for a month and it'd be very useful a section describing the transport sector: buses, train, bicycles, etc. 145.64.134.245 (talk) 12:54, 30 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]