Göttingen School of History


The Göttingen school of history was a group of historians associated with a particular style of historiography located at the University of Göttingen in the late 18th century. This group of historians played an important role in creating a "scientific" basis for historical research, and were also responsible for coining two fundamental groups of terminologies in scientific racism:
The University of Göttingen was the original centre of the ":de:Geschichtswissenschaft" or history as an academic discipline, and became a major centre for globally-orientated anthropology. The school itself was one of the newest universities in Europe, having been founded in 1734 by :de:Gerlach Adolph von Münchhausen, and the first to require the obligation to conduct and publish research alongside lecturing. The historians of this school sought to write a universal history by combining the critical methods of Jean Mabillon with that of the philosophical historians such as Voltaire and Edward Gibbon.

List of academics