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I was going to Hamburg and visiting MaDvo in Göttingen, and on my way north we stopped in Hannover: an unremarkable German city with a few surviving monuments floating in a sea of post-war asphalt.
Digression: this appears to be a standard lay-out of a 100 - 200k German town:
- A baroque Schloss used as a city council or by the administration of a small university,
- A surprisingly large brutalist campus of said university at the outskirts,
- A second, slightly dustier baroque Schloss used as a regional museum, typically with an incredible paleontology and archaeology section and a rather uninspiring and crusty porcelain and oil painting section,
-A Hauptbahnhof in a whirlwind of Kebab places,
-and of course asphalt, all in between.
Anyhow, we sneaked into a church, which was open due to some preparations for a baptism, and during the 10 minutes we had before being escorted outside, we captured a few pictures of the remains of the beloved metaphysician.
The bones of Leibniz
The bones of Leibniz
With one of the prominent biophysicists of today's Lower Saxony in the foreground, paying his respects.
A plaster cast of the skull of G.W. Leibniz
A plaster cast of the skull of G.W. Leibniz
A portrait
A portrait
An incredible figure from the Zeitschrift für Etnografie, 15th Nov 1902, which can amazingly be still seen on this link: https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/23137244.pdf, and the figure is on the last page. The article does not argue for the authenticity using the similarity of the skull to paintings, but looks at e.g., his femur, as he was affected by gout. (should I be reading something else??)
Apropos of bones and Leibniz, this is a sketch of a unicorn fossil reconstructed by the great philosopher.
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