Humboldt University in Berlin Mitte Campus
Humboldt University of Berlin—Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, HU Berlin—is a public research university whose founding goal was modern higher education in the German capital. It was established on 16 August 1809 by Frederick William III, acting on the initiative of Wilhelm von Humboldt, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, and Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher; the University of Berlin opened in 1810. From 1828 until its closure in 1945, it carried the name (Royal) Friedrich Wilhelm University of Berlin. After the Second World War, it received its current name in 1949 in honour of Alexander and Wilhelm von Humboldt. During the Cold War, the university sat in East Berlin, and it was effectively split when the Free University of Berlin opened in West Berlin. Today, its teaching is organized into nine faculties, including a medical school shared with the Freie Universität Berlin, and it serves around 35,000 students across roughly 171 disciplines. …
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