The Free University of Berlin is a public research university in Berlin, Germany. It was founded in West Berlin in 1948 during the early Cold War period. The Free University's name referred to West Be
Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry in 1911. Today, the Hahn-Meitner building houses the Institute for Biochemistry, where nuclear fission was discovered.
The former Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Biology. Today, it houses the Department of Law.
John F. Kennedy, 1963: This school [...] must be interested in turning out citizens of the world, men who comprehend the difficult, sensitive tasks that lie before us as free men and women, and men who are willing to commit their energies to the advancement of a free society.
The "Henry Ford" building
The Humboldt University of Berlin is a public research university in the central borough of Mitte in Berlin, Germany.
Free University of Berlin
…on 4 December 1948. With American support, it was founded as the de facto Western continuation of the University of Berlin (before 1945 named the Friedrich Wilhelm University), which had reopened in 1946 in the Soviet sector of Berlin. In 1949, the University of Berlin, on its original site in East Berlin, was renamed the…
Wilhelm von Humboldt Memorial, Berlin in front of the main building by artist Paul Otto
Friedrich Wilhelm University in 1850
Statue of Alexander von Humboldt outside Humboldt-Universität (Reinhold Begas, 1883)
Friedrich Wilhelm University, (photochrom, 1900)