Considered the father of the modern university, Wilhelm von Humboldt revolutionized public education in Germany. But on his 250th birthday, how does Humboldt's legacy live on? A cosmopolitan linguist, ...

Alexander and Wilhelm von Humboldt are viewed as cosmopolitans and adventurers. But rather than painting a heroic picture, the first major show on the brothers in Germany depicts them in their ...

The Humboldt Forum, a vast new museum complex in a partial reconstruction of the Prussian royal palace in the centre of Berlin, is scheduled to open tomorrow almost two years of postponements caused ...

The Humboldt Forum, a vast new museum complex in a partial reconstruction of the Prussian royal palace in the center of Berlin, opened Tuesday after almost two years of postponements caused first by ...

Humboldt University of Berlin is one of the birthplaces of interdisciplinarity. Founded in 1810, it was envisioned by educational reformer Wilhelm von Humboldt as an institution where students would ...

In contrast to the assertion made in your Editorial “Berlin's university crisis” (Nature 423, 101; 2003), the famous principle of the “unity of teaching and research” that forms the conceptual basis ...

IDEAS continues to explore Wilhelm von Humboldt’s public education system with guests, including acclaimed author Gabor Maté, who is a former English teacher. Is this 200-year-old system equipped to ...