Tübingen is an old university city[?] on the River Neckar in Baden-Württemberg in Germany. It's the seat of the administrative Tübingen region, as well as of the district Tübingen. In 2001, the city had 82,444 inhabitants, including circa 20,000 students. Geographical location 48° 30' North, 9° 45' East. Tübingen is best described as a mixture of an old and distinguished academic flair including liberal and leftist politics, with rural, agricultural and typical swabian elements. The city contains many picturesque buildings from previous centuries, and is located at the river Neckar.
Tübingen's Eberhard Karls university was founded in 1477. Tübingen itself was founded in the 6th or 7th century.
Famous Tübingen residents were the poet Friedrich Hölderlin, Alois Alzheimer, after whom Alzheimer's disease is named and Friedrich Miescher, who was the first to discover DNA. Wilhelm Schickhard[?] developed the first mechanic computer. Hegel and Johannes Kepler studied in Tübingen, also.
Ann Arbor in Michigan is Tübingen's sister city in the United States of America.
External Links
- City's official website (http://www.tuebingen.de/)
- Eberhard Karls University (http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/)
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