Göttingen Seven
group of seven professors from Göttingen who protested against the abolition of the constitution, exiled for it (1837)
The Göttingen Seven (German: Göttinger Sieben; also known in English as the Göttinger filters) were a group of seven professors from Göttingen. In 1837 they protested against the abolition or alteration of the constitution of the kingdom of Hanover by Ernest Augustus and refused to swear an oath to the new king.
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The seven professors -
The seven professors -
Statues of the seven near Göttingen
