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The Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (the Humboldt University) is Berlin's oldest university, founded in 1810 by the liberal Prussian educational reformer and linguist Wilhelm von Humboldt; it was formerly also known as the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität.
The University has been home to many of Germany's greatest thinkers of the past two centuries, among them the subjective idealist philosopher J.G. Fichte, the theologian Friedrich Schleiermacher, the absolute idealist philosopher G.W.F. Hegel, the Romantic legal theorist SavignyFriedrich Karl von Savigny ( February 21, 1779 25 October, 1861) was a German jurist. He was born at Frankfurt, of a family recorded in the history of Lorraine, deriving its name from the castle of Savigny near Charmes in the valley of the Moselle. Left a, the pessimistPessimism generally, describes a belief that things are bad, and tend to become worse; or that looks to the eventual triumph of evil over good; it contrasts with optimism, the contrary belief in the goodness and betterment of things generally. Philosophic philosopher Arthur SchopenhauerArthur Schopenhauer ( February 22, 1788 September 21, 1860) is one of the most important 19th century philosophers, most famous for his work, The World as Will and Representation''. He is known for having espoused a sort of philosophical pessimism that sa, the objectiveAs used in philosophy, in general, an object is something that can have properties and relations. Hence a particular object is, basically, either a particular material body or a particular mind--or, on a neutral monist view, a particular that can be viewe idealist philosopher Friedrich Schelling, and famous physicists Albert EinsteinAlbert Einstein ( March 14 1879 April 18 1955) was a theoretical physicist who is widely regarded as the greatest scientist of the 20th century. He proposed the theory of relativity and also made major contributions to the development of quantum mechanics and Max Planck. Founders of Marxist theory Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels attended the university, as did poet Heinrich Heine, German unifier Otto von Bismarck and European unifier Robert Schuman.
The university is home to 29 Nobel Prize winners.
Its main building is located in the centre of Berlin at the boulevard Unter den Linden. The building was erected by prince Heinrich of Prussia . Most institutes are located in the centre, around the main building, except the nature science institutes, which are located at Adlershof in the south of Berlin.
In 2003 there were 37 145 students at the Humboldt-Universität, of which 4 662 foreign students.
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