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 Göttingen University Library was founded in 1734 as a practical working library for the new university. Its foundations are in several smaller collections which included the library of Göttingen Grammar School (with books mainly on history, classical philology, theology), the library left by Joachim Hinrich von Bülow (1650-1724; a universal library with an emphasis on historical, political and legal literature) and duplicates from the Royal Library in Hanover.\\
-Several decades later it was enhanced by the collection of Friedrich Armand von Uffenbach (1687-1769), whose books on mathematics, engineering, topography and history of art came to the library in 1770. Through purchasing and the special the special support of the university’s founder and curator, Minister and Privy Counsellor Gerlach Adolph Freiherr von Münchhausen (1688-1770), the library steadily increased its holdings. Leading scholars such as Johann Matthias Gesner (1691-1761) and, for almost fifty years, Christian Gottlieb Heyne (1763-1812), were in charge of the library and did much to improve its collections.\\
+Several decades later it was enhanced by the collection of Friedrich Armand von Uffenbach (1687-1769), whose books on mathematics, engineering, topography and history of art came to the library in 1770. Through purchasing and the special support of the university’s founder and curator, Minister and Privy Counsellor Gerlach Adolph Freiherr von Münchhausen (1688-1770), the library steadily increased its holdings. Leading scholars such as Johann Matthias Gesner (1691-1761) and, for almost fifty years, Christian Gottlieb Heyne (1763-1812), were in charge of the library and did much to improve its collections.\\
 In the early years, the principles of building up the collection were based on convictions and methods of the Enlightenment. As scientific work and research required literature in all areas of scholarship from all over the world, the library from the start acquired books not only from local book sellers but also through direct contacts with the book trade in the rest of Europe. In this way, the library achieved a high degree of completeness in its collections, and already in the 18th century it became a model of a modern scholarly universal library.\\

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