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Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Humboldt University of Berlin
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
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Seal of the Universitas Humboldtiana Berolinensis (Latin)
Motto Universitas litterarum (Latin)
Motto in English
The Entity of Sciences
Type Public University
Established 15 October 1811
Budget €424 million (excl. Charité)
President Sabine Kunst
Academic staff
2,441
Administrative staff
3,330
Students 32,996
Undergraduates 18,712
Postgraduates 10,881
2,951
Location Berlin, Germany
Campus Urban and Suburban
Nobel Laureates 40
Colors blue and white
Nickname HU Berlin
Affiliations German Universities Excellence Initiative
UNICA
U15
Atomium Culture
EUA
Website www.hu-berlin.de
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The Humboldt University of Berlin (German: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, abbreviated HU Berlin) is one of Berlin's oldest universities, founded on 15 October 1811 as the University of Berlin (Universität zu Berlin) by the liberal Prussian educational reformer and linguist Wilhelm von Humboldt. The Humboldt university model has strongly influenced other European and Western universities.

From 1828 it was known as the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, and later (unofficially) also as the Universität unter den Linden after its location in the former palace of Prince Henry of Prussia (1726–1802) which his brother, King Frederick II, had built for him between 1748 and 1753 on the avenue Unter den Linden.

In 1949, it changed its name to Humboldt-Universität in honour of both its founder Wilhelm and his brother, geographer Alexander von Humboldt. In 2012, the Humboldt University of Berlin was one of eleven German universities to win in the German Universities Excellence Initiative, a national competition for universities organized by the German Federal Government. The university has been associated with 40 Nobel Prize winners and is considered one of the best universities in Europe as well as one of the most prestigious universities in the world for arts and humanities.

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 under rector Theodor Schmalz. 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, the theologian Friedrich Schleiermacher, the absolute idealist philosopher G.W.F. Hegel, the Romantic legal theorist Friedrich Carl von Savigny, the pessimist philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, the objective idealist philosopher Friedrich Schelling, cultural critic Walter Benjamin, and famous physicists Albert Einstein and Max Planck.


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