Tübingen

American  

[too-bing-uhn, ty-bing-uhn] / ˈtu bɪŋ ən, ˈtü bɪŋ ən /

noun

1. a city in Baden-Württemberg, southwestern Germany, between the Neckar and Ammer rivers: known for a highly respected university.

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Tübingen British  

/ ˈtjuːbɪŋən /

noun

1. a town in SW Germany, in Baden-Württemberg: university (1477). Pop: 83 137 (2003 est)

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Example Sentences

Georg Schild, a history professor at Tübingen University, near Stuttgart, remembers watching annual exercises by the U.S. military every fall when he was growing up in West Germany in the 1960s.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 27, 2026

Benesch’s childhood in Tübingen, a German city southwest of Stuttgart, may have been tube-deficient, but it wasn’t movie-free, and she became fascinated with how films were made.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 24, 2024

To find out, Liao and colleagues in the lab of Andreas Nieder, an animal physiologist also at Tübingen, worked with three carrion crows raised at the university’s Institute for Neurobiology.

From Science Magazine • May 22, 2024

Two independent Russian media outlets, Mediazona and Meduza, worked with a data scientist from Germany’s Tübingen University to analyze Russian government data.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 23, 2024

Although training to become a priest, the courses Kepler was required to attend in his first two years at Tübingen included mathematics, physics and astronomy, in all of which he was an outstanding pupil.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin