Carl Gustav Adolf von Harnack was a Baltic German Lutheran theologian and prominent Church historian. He produced many religious publications from 1873 to 1912. He was ennobled in 1914.
Adolf von Harnack (right) close to Kaiser Wilhelm II on the occasion of the inauguration of a new Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut (1913).
The Berlin State Library is a universal library in Berlin, Germany and a property of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation.
Unter den Linden, one of the two main buildings of the library
Old Royal Library on Bebelplatz, built between 1775 and 1785.
Main Reading Room of the new library building, constructed between 1903 and 1914.
Book burning on the Bebelplatz, May 1933.