https://www.science-story-telling.eu/fileadmin/content/projekte/storytelling/biografien/biografien-eng/lichtenberg-biografie-gb.pdf
prizes. Pastor’s family did not suffer from poverty, but they did not have enough money for the studies of the youngest son, who graduated from the secondary school in 1761 with the opinion of one of the [...] Lichtenberg, helped Georg by giving him the scholarship (200 Guilders per year) and allowing him to study “abroad”, which means in Göttingen. The University of Göttingen, established in 1734 by the elector [...] Gotthelf Kästner, who worked also in the astronomical observatory in the university. The time of studies was not easy for Lichtenberg. A year after he had come to Göttingen, his mother died, and his small