Humboldt University of Berlin Tourist attraction in Berlin, Germany

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Map gps coordinates: 52.518056, 13.393333
Address: Hauptgebäude, 10117 Berlin, Germany

Albert Enstein was officially elected to the academy Humboldt on 24 July 1913 , and he accepted to move to the German Empire the next year. His decision to move to Berlin was also influenced by the prospect of living near his cousin Elsa, with whom he had developed a romantic affair.

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Although Marx's grades in the first term were good at the university of Bonn, they soon deteriorated, leading his father to force a transfer to the more serious and academic University of Berlin.

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German unifier Otto von Bismarck attended the University of Berlin (1833–35).

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Wanting to learn more about physics, chemistry, and astronomy, Wernher von Braun entered the Friedrich-Wilhelm University of Berlin for post-graduate studies and graduated with a doctorate in physics in 1934.

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In February 1943, Werner Heisenberg was appointed to the Chair for Theoretical Physics at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität (today, the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin). In April, his election to the Preußische Akademie der Wissenschaften (Prussian Academy of Sciences) was approved.

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Frederick II of Prussia built Prince Henry's Palace (now the site of Humboldt University) during his reign.

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In 1877 Max Planck went to the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin (Humboldt University) for a year of study with physicists Hermann von Helmholtz and Gustav Kirchhoff and mathematician Karl Weierstrass. 

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Kosmos was Alexander von Humboldt's multi-volume effort in his later years to write a work bringing together all the research from his long career. The writing took shape in lectures he delivered before the University of Berlin in the winter of 1827–28.

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Arthur Schopenhauer arrived to the newly founded University of Berlin for the winter semester of 1811-12. 

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In 1841 Friedrich Engels performed his military service in the Prussian Army as a member of the Household Artillery. Assigned to Berlin, he attended university lectures at the University of Berlin and began to associate with groups of Young Hegelians. 

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Heinrich Hertz studied sciences and engineering in the Humboldt University of Berlin.

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Oswald Spengler attended Humboldt University of Berlin as a private scholar.

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Kwame Nkrumah was awarded honorary doctorate by Humboldt University.

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Wilhelm von Humboldt was a founder of the Humboldt University of Berlin, which was named after him in 1949 (and also after his younger brother, Alexander von Humboldt, a naturalist).

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After a year of military service, Max Weber transferred to the University of Berlin.

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In 1871 Hermann von Helmholtz accepted his final university position, as professor of physics at the Humboldt University in Berlin.

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Alfred Wegener obtained a doctorate in astronomy in 1905 based on a dissertation written under the supervision of Julius Bauschinger at Friedrich Wilhelms University (today Humboldt University), Berlin. 

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In 1899, Albert Schweitzer spent the summer semester at the Humboldt University of Berlin.

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Johann Gottlieb Fichte became a professor of the new university at Berlin founded in 1810. By the votes of his colleagues Fichte was unanimously elected its rector in the succeeding year. 

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In 1882 Wilhelm Wien attended the University of Berlin.

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