government laying a foundation for innovation

[yes-justice.livejournal.com]

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[telemann.livejournal.com]

Gauss's intellectual abilities attracted the attention of the Duke of Brunswick, who sent him to the Collegium Carolinum (now Braunschweig University of Technology), which he attended from 1792 to 1795, and to the University of Göttingen from 1795 to 1798.

Yeah such was a common thing during that period, and not just for mathematics or sciences, it also applied to music and the other arts, these noblemen/women would typically would sponsor trips to Italy in an effort to broaden the applicants' skills and experiences; and bank on that experience investment by hiring the sponsored person by hiring them into the service of the court (be it a nobleman, or whatever rank the nobleman/woman had).

These noblemen and women were often the personification of the state (e.g. Louis XIV, "I am the state.")