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 [bad word] 
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. 
 [bad word] quickly 
Atrociously, it snatches us away. 
No one is spared. 	

Vivat academia 
Vivant professores 
Vivat [bad word] 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 [bad word] 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!