Humboldt University of Berlin

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 university of a similar name in Arcata, California

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.

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n educational reformer and linguist Wilhelm von Humboldt

Wilhelm von Humboldt

Friedrich Wilhelm Christian Karl Ferdinand Freiherr von Humboldt , government functionary, diplomat, philosopher, founder of Humboldt Universit?t in Berlin, friend of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and in particular of Friedrich Schiller, is especially remembered as a Linguistics who made important contributions to the philosophy of lang...
, whose university model has strongly influenced other European and Western universities.

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 university of a similar name in Arcata, California

Arcata, California

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, see Humboldt State University

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Humboldt State University is the northernmost campus of the California State University system, located in Arcata, California within Humboldt County , California, USA....
.

The Humboldt University of Berlin (German

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in honour of both its founder Wilhelm and his brother, naturalist Alexander von Humboldt

Alexander von Humboldt

was a German people natural scientist and List of explorers, and the younger brother of the Prussian minister, philosopher, and linguistics, Wilhelm von Humboldt ....
.

History

The first semester at the newly founded Berlin university occurred in 1810 with 256 students and 52 lecturers in faculties of law, medicine, theology and philosophy. The university has been home to many of Germany's greatest thinkers of the past two centuries, among them the subjective idealist philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

Johann Gottlieb Fichte was a German People philosopher. He was one of the founding figures of the philosophical movement known as German idealism, a movement that developed from the theoretical and ethical writings of Immanuel Kant....
, the theologian Friedrich Schleiermacher, the absolute idealist philosopher G.W.F. Hegel

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was a German people philosopher, and with Johann Gottlieb Fichte and Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, one of the creators of German idealism....
, the Romantic legal theorist Savigny, the pessimist philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer

Arthur Schopenhauer

Arthur Schopenhauer was a Germany philosopher known for his atheistic pessimism and philosophical clarity. At age 25, he published his doctoral dissertation, On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason, which examined the fundamental question of whether reason alone can unlock answers about the world....
, the objective idealist philosopher Friedrich Schelling, cultural critic Walter Benjamin

Walter Benjamin

Walter Bendix Sch?nflies Benjamin was a Germany-Jewish Marxist literary critic, essayist, translator, and philosopher. He was at times associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory and was also influenced by the writings of his younger contemporaries Bertolt Brecht, who developed Marxist aesthetics of dialectical materialism, and G...
, and famous physicists Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein was a Germany-born theoretical physics. He is best known for his theory of relativity and specifically mass?energy equivalence, expressed by the equation E = mc2....
 and Max Planck

Max Planck

Karl Ernst Ludwig Marx Planck, better known as Max Planck was a Germany physicist. He is considered to be the founder of the Quantum mechanics, and one of the most important physicists of the twentieth century....
. Founders of Marxist theory Karl Marx

Karl Marx

Karl Heinrich Marx was a Germanphilosophy, political economy, historian, sociologist, humanism, political theorist and revolutionary credited as the founder of communism....
 and Friedrich Engels

Friedrich Engels

Friedrich Engels was a German Social science and Philosophy, who developed Communism alongside his better-known collaborator, Karl Marx, co-authoring The Communist Manifesto ....
 attended the university, as did poet Heinrich Heine

Heinrich Heine

Christian Johann Heinrich Heine was a journalist, essayist, and one of the most significant German literature German Romanticism poets. He is remembered chiefly for selections of his lyric poetry, many of which were set to music in the form of lieder by German composers....
, German unifier Otto von Bismarck

Otto von Bismarck

Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck, Count of Bismarck-Sch?nhausen, Duke of Lauenburg, Prince of Bismarck, , was a Kingdom of Prussia and Germany statesman and aristocrat of the 19th century....
, Communist Party of Germany

Communist Party of Germany

The Communist Party of Germany was a major political party in Germany between 1918 and 1933, and a minor party in West Germany in the postwar period....
 founder Karl Liebknecht

Karl Liebknecht

was a German socialist and a co-founder of the Spartakusbund and the Communist Party of Germany....
, African American

African American

African Americans or Black Americans are citizens or residents of the United States who have origins in any of the Black people populations of Africa....
 Pan Africanist

Pan-Africanism

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 W. E. B. Du Bois and European unifier Robert Schuman

Robert Schuman

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, as well as the influential surgeon Johann Friedrich Dieffenbach

Johann Friedrich Dieffenbach

Johann Friedrich Dieffenbach was a Germany surgery.Dieffenbach studied theology at the universities at Rostock and Greifswald, and medicine at the K?nigsberg Albertina University....
 in the early half of the 1800s. The university is home to 29 Nobel Prize

Nobel Prize

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 winners.

The structure of German research-intensive universities, such as Humboldt, served as a model for institutions like Johns Hopkins

Johns Hopkins University

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.

Third Reich

After 1933, like all German universities, it was transformed into a Nazi

Nazism

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 educational institution. It was from the University's library that some 20,000 book

Book

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s by "degenerates" and opponents of the regime were taken to be burned

Nazi book burnings

The Nazi book burnings were a campaign conducted by the authorities of Nazi Germany to ceremonially burn all books in Germany which did not correspond with Nazi ideology....
 on May 10 of that year in the Opernplatz (now the Bebelplatz

Bebelplatz

The Bebelplatz is a public square in Berlin, the capital of Germany. The square is on the south side of the Unter den Linden, a major east-west thoroughfare in the centre of the city....
) for a demonstration protected by the SA

Sturmabteilung

The , abbreviated SA, , functioned as a paramilitary organization of the Nazi Party the Germany Nazism. They played a key role in Adolf Hitler's rise to power in the 1930s....
 that also featured a speech by Joseph Goebbels

Joseph Goebbels

Paul Joseph Goebbels was a German people politician and Reich Minister of Propaganda in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945. He was one of German dictator Adolf Hitler's closest associates and most devout followers....
. A monument to this can now be found in the center of the square, consisting of a glass panel opening onto an underground white room with empty shelf space for 20,000 volumes and a plaque, bearing an epigraph from an 1820 work by Heinrich Heine

Heinrich Heine

Christian Johann Heinrich Heine was a journalist, essayist, and one of the most significant German literature German Romanticism poets. He is remembered chiefly for selections of his lyric poetry, many of which were set to music in the form of lieder by German composers....
: "Das war ein Vorspiel nur, dort wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man am Ende auch Menschen" ("That was only a prelude; where they burn books, they ultimately burn people"). Jewish

Judaism

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 students and scholars and political opponents of Nazis were ejected from the university and often deported.

East Germany

In 1946, the university opened again. The Soviet administration soon took over control of the university, relegating all students who did not conform to Communist ideology. As a reaction, the Free University of Berlin

Free University of Berlin

The Free University of Berlin is the largest of the four universities in Berlin. Research at the university is focused on humanities and social sciences and on health science and natural sciences....
 was founded in 1948 in the Western part of the city. The communist party forced it to change the name of the university in 1949. Until the collapse of the East German regime in 1989, Humboldt University remained under tight ideological control of the Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands (Socialist Unity Party of Germany), or SED, which, by rigorously selecting students according to their conformity to the party line, made sure that no democratic opposition could grow on its university campuses. Its Communist-selected students and scholars did not participate to any significant degree in the East German democratic civil rights movements of 1989, and elected the controversial SED member and former Stasi

Stasi

The Ministry for State Security,...
 spy Heinrich Fink as the Director of the University as late as 1990.

Today

After the unification of East and West Germany, the university was radically restructured and all professors had to reapply for their professorships . The faculty was largely replaced with West German professors, among them renowned scholars like the art historian Horst Bredekamp and the historian Heinrich August Winkler. Today, the Humboldt University is a state university with a large number of students (37,145 in 2003, among them more than 4,662 foreign students) after the model of West German universities, and like its counterpart Free University of Berlin

Free University of Berlin

The Free University of Berlin is the largest of the four universities in Berlin. Research at the university is focused on humanities and social sciences and on health science and natural sciences....
.

Its main building is located in the centre of Berlin at the boulevard Unter den Linden

Unter den Linden

Unter den Linden is a boulevard in the centre of Berlin, the capital of Germany. It is named for its Tilia trees that line the grassed pedestrian mall between two carriageways....
. The building was erected on order by King Frederick II for his younger brother Prince Henry of Prussia

Prince Henry of Prussia

Frederick Henry Louis , commonly known as Henry , was a Prince of Kingdom of Prussia. He also served as a general and statesman, and, in 1786, was suggested as a candidate for a monarch for the United States....
. Most institutes are located in the centre, around the main building, except the nature science institutes, which are located at Adlershof

Adlershof

Adlershof is a district in the Boroughs of Berlin Treptow-K?penick of Berlin, Germany. The area known today as the "City of Science, Technology and Media", was once known as the Johannisthal Air Field....
 in the south of Berlin. The University continues to serve the German community.

Library

Once the Royal Library proved insufficient, a new library was founded in 1831, first located in several temporary sites. In 1871-1874 a library building was constructed, following the design of architect Paul Emanuel Spieker. In 1910 the collection was relocated in the building of the Berlin State Library

Berlin State Library

The Berlin State Library is a library in Berlin, Germany and a property of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation.History||-||-|...
. During the Weimar Period

Weimar Republic

The Weimar Republic was the democracy and republican period of Germany from 1919 to 1933. Following World War I, the republic emerged from the German Revolution in November 1918....
 the library contained 831.934 volumes (1930) and was thus one of the leading university libraries in Germany at that time. During the Nazi book burnings

Nazi book burnings

The Nazi book burnings were a campaign conducted by the authorities of Nazi Germany to ceremonially burn all books in Germany which did not correspond with Nazi ideology....
 in 1933, no volumes from the university library were destroyed. Also, the loss through World War II

World War II

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 was comparativly small. Therefore, the library's collection proves to be very homogeneous even today. In 2003, natural science related books were outhoused to the newly found librarly at the Campus Adlershof

Adlershof

Adlershof is a district in the Boroughs of Berlin Treptow-K?penick of Berlin, Germany. The area known today as the "City of Science, Technology and Media", was once known as the Johannisthal Air Field....
, which is dedicated solely to the natural sciences. Since the premises of the State Library had to be cleared in 2005, a new library building is about to be erected close to the main building in the center of Berlin. The "Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm-Zentrum" will be finished in 2009. In the meantime, the collection once more is held at a temporary site. In total, the university library contains about 6.5 million volumes and 9000 held magazines and journals and is one of the biggest university libraries in Germany. As a comparison, the Elmer Holmes Bobst Library at New York University

New York University

New York University is a private university, nonsectarian, research university in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan....
 contains approximately 4.5 million volumes.

Notable alumni, professors and docents

• Azmi Bishara
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   (1956- ), Arab-Israeli politician.
• Bruno Bauer
  Bruno Bauer
  
  Bruno Bauer , was a Germany theology, philosopher and historian.Bauer investigated the sources of the New Testament and controversially concluded that early Christianity owed more to Greek philosophy than to Judaism.....
   (1809-1882), theologian, Bible critic and philosopher
• Jurek Becker
  Jurek Becker
  
  Jurek Becker was a Poland-born Germany writer, film-author and GDR dissident. His most famous novel is Jacob the Liar, which has been made into two films....
   (1937-1997), writer (Jakob the Liar
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  )
• Otto von Bismarck
  Otto von Bismarck
  
  Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck, Count of Bismarck-Sch?nhausen, Duke of Lauenburg, Prince of Bismarck, , was a Kingdom of Prussia and Germany statesman and aristocrat of the 19th century....
   (1815-1898), first German chancellor
• Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  
  Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a Germany Lutheran pastor, Theology, participant in the German Resistance movement against Nazism, and a founding member of the Confessing Church....
   (1906-1945), theologian and resistance fighter
• Max Born
  Max Born
  
  Max Born was a Germany physicist and mathematician who was instrumental in the development of quantum mechanics. He also made contributions to solid-state physics and optics and supervised the work of a number of notable physicists in the 1920s and 30s....
   (1882-1970), physicist, Nobel Prize for physics in 1954
• Ernst Cassirer
  Ernst Cassirer
  
  Ernst Cassirer was a Germany Jewish philosopher. Coming out of the Marburg tradition of neo-Kantianism, he developed a philosophy of culture as a theory of symbols founded in a Phenomenology of epistemology....
   (1874-1945), philosopher
• Adelbert von Chamisso
  Adelbert von Chamisso
  
  Adelbert von Chamisso , was a Germany poet and botanist.He was born Louis Charles Ad?la?de de Chamissot at the ch?teau of Boncourt in Champagne, France, the ancestral seat of his family....
   (1781-1838), natural scientist and writer
• Wilhelm Dilthey
  Wilhelm Dilthey
  
  Wilhelm Dilthey was a Germany historian, psychologist, sociologist, student of hermeneutics, and philosopher. He could be considered an empiricist, in contrast to the idealism prevalent in Germany at the time, but his account of what constitutes the empirical and experiential differs from British empiricism and positivism in its central epi...
   (1833-1911), philosopher
• W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963), African-American activist and scholar
• Paul Ehrlich
  Paul Ehrlich
  
  Paul Ehrlich was a German scientist in the fields of hematology, immunology, and chemotherapy, and Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He is noted for his research in autoimmunity, calling it "horror autotoxicus"....
   (1854-1915), physician, Nobel Prizee for medicine in 1908
• Albert Einstein
  Albert Einstein
  
  Albert Einstein was a Germany-born theoretical physics. He is best known for his theory of relativity and specifically mass?energy equivalence, expressed by the equation E = mc2....
   (1879-1955), physicist, Nobel Prize for physics in 1921
• Friedrich Engels
  Friedrich Engels
  
  Friedrich Engels was a German Social science and Philosophy, who developed Communism alongside his better-known collaborator, Karl Marx, co-authoring The Communist Manifesto ....
   (1820-1895), journalist and philosopher
• Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach
  Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach
  
  Ludwig Andreas von Feuerbach was a Germany philosopher and anthropologist. He was the fourth son of the eminent jurist Paul Johann Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach....
   (1804-1872), philosopher
• Johann Gottlieb Fichte
  Johann Gottlieb Fichte
  
  Johann Gottlieb Fichte was a German People philosopher. He was one of the founding figures of the philosophical movement known as German idealism, a movement that developed from the theoretical and ethical writings of Immanuel Kant....
   (1762-1814), philosopher
• Hermann Emil Fischer
  Hermann Emil Fischer
  
  Hermann Emil Fischer was a Germany chemist and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1902....
   (1852-1919), founder of modern biochemistry, Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1902
• Werner Forßmann (1904-1979), physician, Nobel Prize for medicine in 1956
• James Franck
  James Franck
  
  James Franck was a German physicist and Nobel Prize ....
   (1882-1964), physicist, Nobel Prizee for physics in 1925
• Ernst Gehrcke
  Ernst Gehrcke
  
  Ernst J. L. Gehrcke was a Germany experimental physicist. He was director of the optical department at the Reich Physical and Technical Institute....
   (1878-1960), experimental physicist
• Jacob Grimm
  Jacob Grimm
  
  Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm , German Confederation philologist, jurist and mythology, was born at Hanau, in Hesse-Kassel . He is best known as the discoverer of Grimm's Law, the author of the monumental German Dictionary, his Deutsche Mythologie and more popularly, as one of the Brothers Grimm, as the editor of Grimm's Fairy Tales....
   (1785-1863), linguist and literary critic
• Wilhelm Grimm
  Wilhelm Grimm
  
  Wilhelm Carl Grimm was a German Confederation author, the younger of the Brothers Grimm.He was born in Hanau, Germany and in 1803 he started studying law at the University of Marburg, one year after his brother Jacob Grimm started there....
   (1786-1859), linguist and literary critic
• Fritz Haber
  Fritz Haber
  
  Fritz Haber was a German chemistry, who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1918 for his development for Haber process, important for fertilizers and explosives....
   (1868-1934), chemist, Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1918
• Otto Hahn
  Otto Hahn
  
  Otto Hahn was a German chemist and Nobel laureate who pioneered the fields of radioactivity and radiochemistry. He is regarded as "the father of nuclear chemistry" and the "founder of the atomic age"....
   (1879-1968), chemist, Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1944
• Sir William Reginald Halliday
  William Reginald Halliday
  
  Sir William Reginald Halliday was a historian and archaeologist who served as Principal of King's College London from 1928 to 1952.Born in British Honduras in 1886, Halliday was educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford graduating with a First Class Honours in Literae Humaniores....
   (1886-1966), Principal
  Principal (university)
  
  The Principal is the chief executive and the Provost of a university or college in certain parts of the Commonwealth of Nations....
   of King's College London
  King's College London
  
  King's College London is a United Kingdom higher education institution and co-founding constituent college of the University of London. Founded by George IV of the United Kingdom and the Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington in 1829, its royal charter is predated, in England, only by those of the Universities of University of Oxford and Un...
   (1928-1952)
• Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
  
  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was a German people philosopher, and with Johann Gottlieb Fichte and Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, one of the creators of German idealism....
   (1770-1831), philosopher
• Heinrich Heine
  Heinrich Heine
  
  Christian Johann Heinrich Heine was a journalist, essayist, and one of the most significant German literature German Romanticism poets. He is remembered chiefly for selections of his lyric poetry, many of which were set to music in the form of lieder by German composers....
   (1797-1856), writer and poet
• Werner Heisenberg
  Werner Heisenberg
  
  Werner Heisenberg was a German Theoretical physics who made foundational contributions to quantum mechanics and is best known for asserting the uncertainty principle of quantum theory....
   (1901-1976), physicist, Nobel Prize for physics in 1932
• Hermann von Helmholtz
  Hermann von Helmholtz
  
  Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz was a Germany physician and physicist who made significant contributions to several widely varied areas of modern science....
   (1821-1894), physician and physicist
• Gustav Hertz (1887-1975), physicist, Nobel Prize for physics in 1925
• Heinrich Hertz (1857-1894), physicist
• Abraham Joshua Heschel
  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  
  Abraham Joshua Heschel was a Warsaw-born American rabbi and one of the leading Jewish theologians of the 20th century....
   (1907-1972) rabbi, philosopher, and theologian
• Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff
  Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff
  
  Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff was a Netherlands physical chemistry and organic chemistry and the winner of the inaugural Nobel Prize in chemistry....
   (1852-1911), chemist, Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1901
• Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland
  Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland
  
  Christoph Wilhelm Friedrich Hufeland , was a Germany physician. He is famous as the most eminent practical physician of his time in Germany and as the author of numerous works displaying extensive reading and a cultivated critical faculty....
   (1762-1836), founder of macrobiotics
• Wilhelm von Humboldt
  Wilhelm von Humboldt
  
  Friedrich Wilhelm Christian Karl Ferdinand Freiherr von Humboldt , government functionary, diplomat, philosopher, founder of Humboldt Universit?t in Berlin, friend of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and in particular of Friedrich Schiller, is especially remembered as a Linguistics who made important contributions to the philosophy of lang...
   (1767-1835), politician, linguist, and founder of the university
• Alexander von Humboldt
  Alexander von Humboldt
  
  was a German people natural scientist and List of explorers, and the younger brother of the Prussian minister, philosopher, and linguistics, Wilhelm von Humboldt ....
   (1769-1859), natural scientist
• Robert Koch
  Robert Koch
  
  Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch was a German physician. He became famous for isolating Bacillus anthracis , the Mycobacterium tuberculosis and the Vibrio cholerae and for his development of Koch's postulates....
   (1843-1910), physician, Nobel Prize for medicine in 1905
• Albrecht Kossel
  Albrecht Kossel
  
  Ludwig Karl Martin Leonhard Albrecht Kossel was a Germany medical doctor....
   (1853-1927), physician, Nobel Prize for medicine in 1910
• Arnold von Lasaulx
  Arnold von Lasaulx
  
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   (1839-1886) mineralogist and petrographer
  Petrography
  
  Petrography is that branch of petrology which focuses on detailed descriptions of rock . Someone who studies petrography is called a petrographer....
  
• Max von Laue
  Max von Laue
  
  Max Theodor Felix von Laue was a German physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1914 for his discovery of the diffraction of X-rays by crystals....
   (1879-1960), physicist, Nobel Prize for physics in 1914
• Wassily Leontief
  Wassily Leontief
  
  Wassily Wassilyovitch Leontief , was an economist notable for his research on how changes in one economic sector may have an effect on other sectors....
   (1905-1999), economist, Nobel Prize for economics in 1973
• Karl Liebknecht
  Karl Liebknecht
  
  was a German socialist and a co-founder of the Spartakusbund and the Communist Party of Germany....
   (1871-1919), socialist politician and revolutionary
• Herbert Marcuse
  Herbert Marcuse
  
  Herbert Marcuse was a German people philosophy and sociology, and a member of the Frankfurt School. His best known works are Eros and Civilization, One-Dimensional Man and The Aesthetic Dimension....
   (1898-1979), philosopher
• Karl Marx
  Karl Marx
  
  Karl Heinrich Marx was a Germanphilosophy, political economy, historian, sociologist, humanism, political theorist and revolutionary credited as the founder of communism....
   (1818-1883), philosopher
• Ernst Mayr (1904-2005), biologist
• Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847), composer
• Theodor Mommsen
  Theodor Mommsen
  
  Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen was a Germany classics, historian, jurist, journalist, politician, archaeologist, and writer generally regarded as the greatest classicist of the 19th century....
   (1817-1903), historian, Nobel Prize for literature in 1902
• Max Planck
  Max Planck
  
  Karl Ernst Ludwig Marx Planck, better known as Max Planck was a Germany physicist. He is considered to be the founder of the Quantum mechanics, and one of the most important physicists of the twentieth century....
   (1858-1947), physicist, Nobel Prize for physics in 1918
• Leopold von Ranke
  Leopold von Ranke
  
  Leopold von Ranke was a Germany historian of the 19th century, and frequently considered one of the founders of modern source-based history. Ranke set the tone for much of later historical writing, introducing such ideas as reliance on primary sources , an emphasis on narrative history and especially international politics and a commitment...
   (1795-1886), historian
• Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling (1775-1854), philosopher
• Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher
  Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher
  
  Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher was a German theology and philosopher known for his impressive attempt to reconcile the criticisms of the Age of Enlightenment with traditional Protestant orthodoxy....
   (1768-1834), philosopher
• Bernhard Schlink
  Bernhard Schlink
  
  Bernhard Schlink is a Germany jurist and writer. He was born in Bethel, Germany, to a German father and a Swiss mother, the youngest of 4 children....
   (1992- ), writer, Der Vorleser (The Reader
  The Reader
  
  The Reader is an award-winning novel by German people law professor and judge Bernhard Schlink. It was published in Germany in 1995 and in the United States in 1997....
  )
• Menachem Mendel Schneerson
  Menachem Mendel Schneerson
  
  Menachem Mendel Schneerson In 1950, upon the death of his father-in-law, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn, he assumed the leadership of Chabad Lubavitch....
   (1902-1994), rabbi, philosopher, and theologian
• Arthur Schopenhauer
  Arthur Schopenhauer
  
  Arthur Schopenhauer was a Germany philosopher known for his atheistic pessimism and philosophical clarity. At age 25, he published his doctoral dissertation, On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason, which examined the fundamental question of whether reason alone can unlock answers about the world....
   (1788-1860), philosopher
• Erwin Schrödinger
  Erwin Schrödinger
  
  Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schr?dinger was an Austrian theoretical physicist who achieved fame for his contributions to quantum mechanics, especially the Schr?dinger equation, for which he received the Nobel Prize in 1933....
   (1887-1961), physicist, Nobel Prize for physics in 1933
• Georg Simmel
  Georg Simmel
  
  Georg Simmel was one of the first generation of Germany sociology. His studies pioneered the concept of social structure, and he was a key precursor of social network analysis....
   (1858-1918), philosopher and sociologist
• Joseph B. Soloveitchik (1903-1993), rabbi, philosopher, and theologian
• Werner Sombart
  Werner Sombart
  
  Werner Sombart was a Germany economics and sociology, the head of the ?Youngest Historical School? and one of the leading Continental European social scientists during the first quarter of the 20th century....
   (1863-1941), philosopher, sociologist and economist
• Hans Spemann
  Hans Spemann
  
  Hans Spemann was a Germans Embryology who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1935 for his discovery of the effect now known as Embryogenesis, an influence, exercised by various parts of the embryo, that directs the development of groups of cells into particular tissues and organs....
   (1869-1941), biologist, Nobel Prize for biology in 1935
• Max Stirner
  Max Stirner
  
  Johann Kaspar Schmidt , better known as Max Stirner , was a German philosopher, who ranks as one of the literary fathers of nihilism, existentialism, post-modernism and anarchism, especially of individualist anarchism....
   (1806-1856), philosopher
• Kurt Tucholsky
  Kurt Tucholsky
  
  Kurt Tucholsky was a German-Jewish journalist, satire and writer. He also wrote under the pseudonyms Kaspar Hauser, Peter Panter, Theobald Tiger and Ignaz Wrobel....
   (1890-1935), writer and journalist
• Rudolf Virchow
  Rudolf Virchow
  
  Rudolf Ludwig Karl Virchow was a Medicine, Anthropology, public health activist, Pathology, prehistorian, biologist and politician. He is referred to as the "Father of Pathology," and founded the field of Social Medicine....
   (1821-1902), physician and politician
• Karl Weierstraß (1815-1897), mathematician
• Wilhelm Heinrich Westphal (1882-1978), physicist
• Wilhelm Wien
  Wilhelm Wien
  
  Wilhelm Carl Werner Otto Fritz Franz Wien was a German physics who, in 1893, used theories about heat and electromagnetism to compose Wien's displacement law, which relates the maximum Emission of a blackbody to its temperature....
   (1864-1928), physicist, Nobel Prize for physics in 1911
• Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff
  Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff
  
  Enno Friedrich Wichard Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff was a Germany Classical philology. Wilamowitz, as he is known in scholarly circles, was a renowned authority on Ancient Greece and its literature....
   (1848-1931), philologist
• Richard Willstätter
  Richard Willstätter
  
  Richard Martin Willst?tter was a Germany organic chemist whose study of the structure of plant pigments, chlorophyll included, won him the 1915 Nobel Prize for Chemistry....
   (1872-1942), chemist, Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1915

Organization

• Faculty of Law
  LAW
  
  LAW may refer to:* Anti-tank warfare, e.g. the US Army M72 LAW or the British Army LAW 80*Palestinian Society for the Protection of Human Rights ...
  
• Faculty of Agriculture
  Agriculture
  
  Agriculture refers to the production of food and goods through farming and forestry. Agriculture was the key development that led to the rise of civilization, with the animal husbandry of domestication animals and plants creating food surpluses that enabled the development of more Population density and Social stratification societies....
   and Horticulture
  Horticulture
  
  'Horticulture' is the industry and science of plant cultivation. Horticulturists work and conduct research in the disciplines of plant propagation and cultivation, Crop , plant breeding and genetic engineering, plant biochemistry, and plant physiology....
  
• Faculty of Mathematics
  Mathematics
  
  Mathematics is the study of quantity, structure, space, change, and related topics of pattern and form. Mathematicians seek out patterns whether found in numbers, space, natural science, computers, imaginary abstractions, or elsewhere....
   and Natural Sciences I (Biology
  Biology
  
  Biology is a branch of the natural sciences concerned with the study of living organisms and their interaction with each other and their environment ....
  , Chemistry
  Chemistry
  
  Chemistry is the science concerned with the composition, structure, and properties of matter, as well as the changes it undergoes during chemical reactions....
  , Physics
  Physics
  
  Physics is the natural science which examines basic concepts such as energy, force, and spacetime and all that derives from these, such as mass, charge, matter and its Motion ....
  )
• Faculty of Mathematics
  Mathematics
  
  Mathematics is the study of quantity, structure, space, change, and related topics of pattern and form. Mathematicians seek out patterns whether found in numbers, space, natural science, computers, imaginary abstractions, or elsewhere....
   and Natural Sciences II (Geography
  Geography
  
  Geography is the study of the Earth and its lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena. A literal translation would be "to describe or write about the Earth"....
  , Computer Science
  Computer science
  
  Computer science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation, and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems....
  , Mathematics
  Mathematics
  
  Mathematics is the study of quantity, structure, space, change, and related topics of pattern and form. Mathematicians seek out patterns whether found in numbers, space, natural science, computers, imaginary abstractions, or elsewhere....
  , Psychology
  Psychology
  
  Psychology is an academic and applied science discipline involving the science study of human mental functions and behavior. Occasionally it also relies on symbolic hermeneutics and critical theory, although these traditions are less pronounced than in other social sciences such as sociology....
  )
• Charité
  Charité
  
  File:Charit? .jpgFile:Freie Universitaet Berlin - Universitaetsklinikum Benjamin-Franklin der Charite - Nordseite 1.jpgFile:Herzzentrum-b.jpgFile:Charite - Universitaetsmedizin Berlin - locations.JPG...
   - Berlin University Medicine
  Medicine
  
  Medicine is the art and science of healing. It encompasses a range of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness....
  
• Faculty of Philosophy
  Philosophy
  
  Philosophy is the study of general problems concerning matters such as existence, knowledge, truth, beauty, justice, validity, mind, and language....
   I (Philosophy
  Philosophy
  
  Philosophy is the study of general problems concerning matters such as existence, knowledge, truth, beauty, justice, validity, mind, and language....
  , History
  HIStory
  
  HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I is a double album by Michael Jackson, released on June 20, 1995, and is Jackson's ninth. The first disc, named "HIStory Begins" consists of a selection of Jackson's greatest hits from the singer's past fifteen years, while the second, named "HIStory Continues" features new songs, with the...
  , European Ethnology
  Ethnology
  
  Ethnology is the branch of anthropology that compares and analyzes the origins, distribution, technology, religion, language, and social structure of the ethnicity, Race , and/or national divisions of humanity....
  , Department of Library
  Library
  
  A library is a collection of information, sources, resources, books, and services, and the structure in which it is housed: it is organized for use and maintained by a public body, an institution, or a private individual....
   and Information Science
  Information science
  
  Information science is an interdisciplinarity science primarily concerned with the collection, Categorization, manipulation, storage, information retrieval and dissemination of information....
  )
• Faculty of Philosophy
  Philosophy
  
  Philosophy is the study of general problems concerning matters such as existence, knowledge, truth, beauty, justice, validity, mind, and language....
   II (Literature
  Literature
  
  Literature is the art of written works. Literally translated, the word means "acquaintance with letters" . In Western culture the most basic written literary types include fiction and non-fiction....
  , Linguistics
  Linguistics
  
  Linguistics is the science study of natural language. Linguistics encompasses a number of sub-fields. An important topical division is between the study of language structure and the study of Meaning ....
  , Scandinavian Studies
  Scandinavian studies
  
  Scandinavian studies is an interdisciplinary academic field of area studies that covers topics related to Scandinavia and the Nordic countries, including their languages, literature, history, culture and society, in countries other than these....
  , Romance
  Romance languages
  
  The Romance languages are a branch of the Indo-European languages comprising all the languages that descend from Latin language, the language of ancient Rome....
   literatures, English and American Studies
  American studies
  
  American studies or American civilization is an Interdisciplinarity dealing with the study of the United States. It incorporates the study of Economy of the United States, History of the United States, American literature, art of the United States, Mass media, American cinema, urban studies, women's studies, and culture of the United St...
  , Slavic Studies, Classical Philology
  Classical philology
  
  Classical philology is the study of the language systems of Latin, specifically ancient Latin, and of Ancient Greek. It is called classical philology due to the use of the term Classics to refer to the general studies of ancient Greece and Rome....
  )
• Faculty of Philosophy
  Philosophy
  
  Philosophy is the study of general problems concerning matters such as existence, knowledge, truth, beauty, justice, validity, mind, and language....
   III (Social Sciences
  Social sciences
  
  The social sciences comprise academic disciplines concerned with the study of the social life of human groups and individuals including anthropology, communication studies, economics, human geography, history, political science, psychology and sociology....
  , Cultural Studies
  Cultural studies
  
  Cultural studies is an academic discipline which combines political economy, communication, sociology, social theory, literary theory, Media influence, film theory, cultural anthropology, philosophy, museum studies and art history/art criticism to study culture phenomena in various societies....
  /Arts, Asian/African Studies (includes Archeology), Gender Studies
  Gender studies
  
  Gender studies is a Field of study of interdisciplinary study which analyzes the phenomenon of gender. Gender Studies is sometimes related to studies of Social class, Race , ethnicity, sexuality and Location ....
  )
• Faculty of Philosophy
  Philosophy
  
  Philosophy is the study of general problems concerning matters such as existence, knowledge, truth, beauty, justice, validity, mind, and language....
   IV (Sport science, Rehabilitation
  Physical medicine and rehabilitation
  
  Physical medicine and rehabilitation , or physiatry, is a branch of medicine which aims to enhance and restore functional ability and quality of life to those with physical impairments or disabilities....
   Studies, Education
  Education
  
  File:Inukshuk Monterrey 1.jpgEducation can be seen as a product or a process and considered in a broad sense or a technical sense. According to philosophy of education George F....
  , Quality Management
  Quality management
  
  Quality control is a method for ensuring that all the activities necessary to design, develop and implement a product or service are effective and efficient with respect to the system and its performance....
   in Education
  Education
  
  File:Inukshuk Monterrey 1.jpgEducation can be seen as a product or a process and considered in a broad sense or a technical sense. According to philosophy of education George F....
  )
• Faculty of Theology
  Theology
  
  Theology is the study of the existence or attributes of a deity or gods, or more generally the study of religion or spirituality. It is sometimes contrasted with religious studies: theology is understood as the study of religion from an internal perspective , and religious studies as the study of religion from an external perspective....
  
• Faculty of Economics
  Economics
  
  File:Ballard Farmers' Market - vegetables.jpgEconomics is the Social sciences that studies the Production theory basics, Distribution , and Consumption of Good and Service ....
   and Business Administration

• Centre for British Studies
  Centre for British Studies
  
  Part of Humboldt University of Berlin, the Centre for British Studies /Gro?britannienzentrum is an interdisciplinary institute committed to teaching and research focused on the United Kingdom....
   (in German: Großbritannienzentrum)
• Museum für Naturkunde (Museum of Natural History)

See also

• List of Universities in Berlin
• Charité
  Charité
  
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• Free University of Berlin
  Free University of Berlin
  
  The Free University of Berlin is the largest of the four universities in Berlin. Research at the university is focused on humanities and social sciences and on health science and natural sciences....
  
• Technical University of Berlin
  Technical University of Berlin
  
  The Technical University of Berlin is located in Berlin, Germany.It was founded in 1879 and, with nearly 30,000 students, is one of the largest technical universities in Germany....
  
• Berlin University of the Arts
  Berlin University of the Arts
  
  The Universit?t der K?nste Berlin, UdK is a Germany university founded in 1975 with the merger of the Berlin State School of Fine Arts and the Berlin State School of Music and the Performing Arts....
  
• Humboldt Museum
  Humboldt Museum
  
  The Museum f?r Naturkunde , widely known as the Naturkundemuseum, occasionally as the Humboldt Museum of Berlin. It has a massive collection of more than 25 million zoological, paleontological, and minerological specimens, including more than ten thousand type specimens....
  

External links

•  – Knowledge- and Technologytransfer Subsidiary of Humboldt University
•  – The official university shop of Humboldt University
• - Interactive 360° Panorama in front of the University