Wilhelm von Humboldt

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.

Portraits

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  Wilhelm von Humboldt

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  Caution: Mirror-inverted!

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  Schiller, Wilhelm und Alexander von Humboldt und Goethe in Jena, von Adolph Müller

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  Berlin stamp, 1952

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  Gedenkmünze - Wilhelm und Alexander von Humboldt

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  German stamp, 1985

Monuments

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  Wilhelm von Humboldt, monument at the Humboldt University of Berlin

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  Wilhelm von Humboldt, monument at the Humboldt University of Berlin

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  Statue, Unter den Linden 6, Berlin-Mitte, Deutschland

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  Reiterstandbild Friedrich Wilhelm III in Köln, Beifigur

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  (2), komplett

Architectural Sites

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  Tegel Palace (Berlin), Humboldt’s family property, reconstructed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel 1820-1824

Plaques

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  Memorial Plaque, Unter den Linden 6, in Berlin-Mitte

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  Memorial stone for „Christian Kunth“ in Berlin-Tegel, educator of the Humboldt-brothers