Gottingen University Founded
November 7, 1737
George II, elector of Hanover and king of Britain, founded a new university on the Leine. Unlike most German institutions of its day, it had no theological faculty's veto over other departments. Within a generation Gottingen would become the greatest center of Enlightenment scholarship in the German lands, attracting Gauss a century later.
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Era
Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.