Wilhelm von Humboldt - Berlin, Germany
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N 52° 31.060 E 013° 23.608
33U E 390991 N 5819830
Located in front of Humboldt University, Unter den Linden, Berlin.
Waymark Code: WMPXNT
Location: Berlin, Germany
Date Posted: 11/05/2015
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This larger than life marble sculpture depicts the philosopher Wilhelm von Humboldt as a relatively young man, seated in a chair with a large tome resting partially on the arm of the chair and partially on his right thigh. One foot juts out from under his heavy coats. His expression seems rather stern. The artist is Paul Otto and it is dated 1882.
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"Friedrich Wilhelm Christian Karl Ferdinand von Humboldt (22 June 1767 – 8 April 1835) was a Prussian philosopher, government functionary, diplomat, and founder of the Humboldt University of Berlin, which was named after him in 1949 (and also after his brother, Alexander von Humboldt, a naturalist).
He is especially remembered as a linguist who made important contributions to the philosophy of language and to the theory and practice of education. In particular, he is widely recognized as having been the architect of the Humboldtian education ideal, which was used from the beginning in Prussia as a model for its system of education and later in countries such as the United States and Japan.
His younger brother, Alexander von Humboldt, was famous as a geographer, naturalist, and explorer...
Collected Writings
Humboldt, Wilhelm von: Gesammelte Schriften: Ausgabe Der Preussischen Akademie Der Wissenschaften. Bd. I—XVII, Berlin 1903–36. (Cited as "GS"; the Roman numeral indicates the volume and the Arabic figure the page; the original German spelling has been modernized)"