🇩🇪 The Enchanting Göttingen – Europe’s "Columbia University"

Nestled in this small city are 45 Nobel laureates, including my idol Einstein, who frequented here a century ago. This unassuming "Mecca of Academia" hides endless legends. ✨ 📍 First Stop: The Goose Girl (Gänseliesel) at Town Hall Square 🦢 "The most kissed girl in the world." Legend says Ph.D. students must kiss her cheek, or their degree isn’t complete! 😂 Though banned in 1923, students still sneak kisses at midnight—proof of Göttingen’s rebellious academic freedom (and a nod to the Brothers Grimm’s tales). The square statue is a replica—the real one is in the city museum. When I visited, the curator whispered, "This is her!" after I donated some coins. 💰 📍 Second Stop: Gauss & Weber Statue 🧮 Gauss (the "King of Mathematics") and Weber invented the electromagnetic telegraph here—the ancestor of modern communication. No telegraph? Maybe no space exploration today. 🚀💡 📍 Third Stop: Einstein’s "Relativity Inspiration Spot" 🤯 In 1915, Einstein came to debate Hilbert on general relativity—almost getting scooped by the math genius! They later made peace, but Einstein joked: "Göttingen’s mathematicians are tougher than my hair!" He admitted: "Without Göttingen’s math, my theory might’ve stayed half-baked." 📍 Marshal Zhu De’s Study Abroad Footprint 🇨🇳 In the 1920s, young Zhu De (future founding marshal of China) studied social sciences here. His red villa still stands—red, a color deep in Chinese hearts. From warlord to revolutionary, was Göttingen his "knowledge changes destiny" moment? 📍 Master Ji Xianlin’s Decade in Göttingen 📜 The Oriental Studies legend spent 10 years here mastering Sanskrit, Pali, and 12+ languages. Later, he founded China’s Indology field. His motto: "True learning isn’t about utility—only truth." His life proved: Great scholarship springs from pure passion. Göttingen is a living science chronicle—where Gauss drew the 17-sided polygon, Einstein dueled Hilbert, and genius echoes in every cobblestone. 📜 Ending with the university’s motto: "In publica commoda" (For the Good of All). #LifeInGermany #TravelEurope #Göttingen #NobelCity #AcademicLegends #Einstein #HistoryWalks 🌍🎓✨