Gaudeamus igitur
Juvenes dum sumus
Post jucundum juventutem
Post molestam senectutem
Nos habebit humus. | Let us rejoice therefore
While we are young.
After a pleasant youth
After a troublesome old age
The earth will have us. |
Ubi sunt qui ante nos
In mundo fuere?
Vadite ad superos
Transite in inferos
Hos si vis videre. | Where are they
Who were in the world before us?
You may cross over to heaven
You may go to hell
If you wish to see them. |
Vita nostra brevis est
Brevi finietur.
Venit mors velociter
Rapit nos atrociter
Nemini parcetur. | Our life is brief
It will be finished shortly.
Death comes quickly
Atrociously, it snatches us away.
No one is spared. |
Vivat academia
Vivant professores
Vivat membrum quodlibet
Vivat membra quaelibet
Semper sint in flore. | Long live the academy!
Long live the teachers!
Long live each male student!
Long live each female student!
May they always flourish! |
Vivant omnes virgines
Faciles, formosae.
Vivant et mulieres
Tenerae amabiles
Bonae laboriosae. | Long live all maidens
Easy and beautiful!
Long live mature women also,
Tender and loveable
And full of good labor. |
Vivant et republica
et qui illam regit.
Vivat nostra civitas,
Maecenatum caritas
Quae nos hic protegit. | Long live the State
And the One who rules it!
Long live our City
And the charity of benefactors
Which protects us here! |
| Pereat tristitia,
Pereant osores.
Pereat diabolus,
Quivis antiburschius
Atque irrisores. (vers. C. W. Kindeleben 1781) | Let sadness perish!
Let haters perish!
Let the devil perish!
Let whoever is against our school
Who laughs at it, perish! |
