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)
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
Humboldt University of Berlin
…Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin). During the Cold War, the university found itself in East Berlin and was de facto split in two when the Free University of Berlin opened in West Berlin. The university received its current name in honour of Alexander and Wilhelm von Humboldt in 1949. The university is divided into…
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