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    Friedrich Wilhelm Christian Karl Ferdinand von Humboldt (/ˈhʌmboʊlt/, also US: /ˈhʊmboʊlt/, UK: /ˈhʌmbɒlt/; German: [ˈvɪlhɛlm fɔn ˈhʊmbɔlt]; 22 June 1767...
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    Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt (14 September 1769 – 6 May 1859) was a German polymath, geographer, naturalist, explorer, and proponent...
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    university was established by Frederick William III on the initiative of Wilhelm von Humboldt, Johann Gottlieb Fichte and Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher...
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    concept of the research university. The Humboldtian model goes back to Wilhelm von Humboldt, who in the time of the Prussian reforms relied on a growing, educated...
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  • was first expressed explicitly by 19th-century thinkers such as Wilhelm von Humboldt and Johann Gottfried Herder, who considered language as the expression...
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    On 29 June 1791 she married the linguist and prussian statesman Wilhelm von Humboldt in Erfurt. Their marriage was an unconventional one and both allowed...
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    Orbiter 4). The crater was named after German philologist Wilhelm von Humboldt by the IAU. Humboldt is one of the largest craters of Upper (Late) Imbrian...
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  • art historian Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767–1835), Prussian minister, linguist and philosopher Alexander von Humboldt (disambiguation) Humboldt (disambiguation)...
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    Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Johann Gottfried Herder, Alexander von Humboldt, Wilhelm von Humboldt, and August and Friedrich Schlegel have come to be collectively...
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    first Hawaiian in Prussia, Germany. According to the records of Wilhelm von Humboldt, he stated Teoni as his father's name and Bete as his mother's. He...
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    the mother of Wilhelm and Alexander von Humboldt, born from the union with Alexander Georg von Humboldt her second husband. Von Humboldt came from a family...
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    The German university — the Humboldtian model — established by Wilhelm von Humboldt was based upon Friedrich Schleiermacher's liberal ideas about the...
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    The Wilhelm von Humboldt Memorial to the left of the Humboldt University main building on Unter den Linden avenue in Berlin's Mitte district commemorates...
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  • Traité d'économie politique (Treatise on Political Economy), 1803. Wilhelm von Humboldt (Germany, 1767–1835) Some literature: Ideen zu einem Versuch, die...
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  • Humboldt may refer to: Alexander von Humboldt, German natural scientist, brother of Wilhelm von Humboldt Wilhelm von Humboldt, German linguist, philosopher...
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    early 19th-century Prussia in Germany, where Wilhelm von Humboldt championed his vision of Einheit von Lehre und Forschung (the unity of teaching and...
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  • rolls.  On November 17, 1823, the scholar Wilhelm von Humboldt wrote from Weimar, to his wife Caroline von Humboldt and others, about his and Goethe's diet:...
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    Schloss Tegel (category Alexander von Humboldt)
    Humboldt-Schloss is a country house in Tegel, part of the Reinickendorf district of the German capital Berlin. The brothers Wilhelm and Alexander von...
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    by Gerhard von Scharnhorst, August Neidhardt von Gneisenau, and Hermann von Boyen, and educational reforms headed by Wilhelm von Humboldt. Gneisenau made...
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  • from the work of Prussian philosopher and educational administrator Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767–1835). Thus, in this context, the concept of education becomes...
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  • Wirksamkeit des Staats zu bestimmen) is a philosophical treatise by Wilhelm von Humboldt, which is a major work of the German Enlightenment. Though written...
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    Goethe, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Stuart Mill, Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Wilhelm von Humboldt, Franz Boas, and Walter Rauschenbusch among others...
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    neurologist Wilhelm Hetling (1740–1798), Baltic-German politician and the first mayor of Reval (modern-day Tallinn) Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767–1835),...
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    2000. He was also bestowed with the Wilhelm-von-Humboldt-Foundation Award presented in a public ceremony at the Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany, on...
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    higher education around the natural and social sciences. Similarly, Wilhelm von Humboldt's educational model in Prussia (now Germany), which later became the...
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    the Prussian scholars Wilhelm and Alexander von Humboldt. Considered the "German equivalent" of the British Museum, the Humboldt Forum houses the non-European...
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    given in Quérard's France littéraire s.v. Rémusat. His letters to Wilhelm von Humboldt are also of interest. In 1829, he was elected as a member to the...
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    Gabriele von Bülow (28 May 1802 – 16 April 1887) was a German noblewoman. The third daughter of Wilhelm von Humboldt and Caroline von Dacheröden, she was...
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    The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (German: Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung) is a foundation that promotes international academic cooperation between...
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    Shakespeare. Schlegel met with Caroline Schelling and Wilhelm von Humboldt. In 1790 his brother Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel came to Göttingen. Both were...
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