Wilhelm von Humboldt
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Karl Wilhelm von Humboldt (June 22, 1767 - April 8, 1835), government functionary, foreign diplomat, philosopher, founder of Humboldt Universität in Berlin, friend of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and especially of Friedrich Schiller, is especially remembered as a German linguist who introduced a knowledge of the Basque language to European intellectuals. His younger brother Alexander von Humboldt was equally famous in the natural sciences.
[edit] Portraits
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 Wilhelm von Humboldt |
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 Caution: Mirror-inverted! |
 Schiller, Wilhelm und Alexander von Humboldt und Goethe in Jena, von Adolph Müller |
 Berlin stamp, 1952 |
 Gedenkmünze - Wilhelm und Alexander von Humboldt |
_1985,_MiNr_731.jpg) German stamp, 1985 |
[edit] Monuments
 Wilhelm von Humboldt, monument at the Humboldt University of Berlin |
 Wilhelm von Humboldt, monument at the Humboldt University of Berlin |
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[edit] Architectural Sites
 Palace Tegel (Berlin), Humboldt’s family property, reconstructed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel 1820-1824 |
 Memorial stone for „Christian Kunth“ in Berlin-Tegel, educator of the Humboldt-brothers |
