The Humboldt University of Berlin is a public research university in the central borough of Mitte in Berlin, Germany.
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)
Wilhelm von Humboldt
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Friedrich Wilhelm Christian Karl Ferdinand von Humboldt was a Prussian philosopher, linguist, government functionary, diplomat, and founder of the Humboldt University of Berlin. In 1949, the universit
Humboldt University of Berlin
…research university in the central borough of Mitte in Berlin, Germany. The university was established by Frederick William III on the initiative of Wilhelm von Humboldt, Johann Gottlieb Fichte and Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher as the University of Berlin (Universität zu Berlin) in 1809, and opened in 1810. From…
Portrait by Thomas Lawrence
Coat of arms of the Barons von Humboldt-Dacheröden
Bust of Wilhelm von Humboldt by Bertel Thorvaldsen, 1808