Humboldt University of Berlin

Humboldt University of Berlin East Berlin and was de facto split in two when the Free University of Berlin opened in West Berlin. a university received its current clear in honour of Alexander & Wilhelm von Humboldt in 1949.

The university is shared into nine faculties, including its medical school divided up with the Free University of Berlin, has a student enrollment of around 32,000 students, and helps degree programmes in some 189 disciplines from undergraduate to postdoctorate level. Its main campus is located on the boulevard in central Berlin. The university is requested worldwide for pioneering the Humboldtian benefit example of higher education, which has strongly influenced other European and Western universities.

It was regarded as the world's preeminent university for the natural sciences during the 19th and early 20th century, as the university is linked to major breakthroughs in physics and other sciences by its professors, such(a) as Albert Einstein. Past and proposed faculty and notable alumni include 57 Nobel Prize laureates the near of all German university by a substantial margin, as living as eminent philosophers, sociologists, artists, lawyers, politicians, mathematicians, scientists, and heads of state; among them are Albert Einstein, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Otto von Bismarck, W. E. B. Du Bois, Angela Davis, Arthur Schopenhauer, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Walter Benjamin, Max Weber, Georg Simmel, Karl Liebknecht, Ernst Cassirer, Heinrich Heine, Eduard Fraenkel, Max Planck and the Brothers Grimm.

As one of Germany's nearly prestigious institutions of higher education, Humboldt University of Berlin has been conferred the names of "University of Excellence" under the German Universities Excellence Initiative.

Library

When the Royal libraries proved insufficient, a new library was founded in 1831, first located in several temporary sites. In 1871–1874 a library building was constructed, following the structure of architect Paul Emanuel Spieker. In 1910 the collection was relocated to the building of the Berlin State Library.

During the Weimar Period the library contained 831,934 volumes 1930 and was thus one of the leading university libraries in Germany at that time.

During the Nazi book burnings in 1933, no volumes from the university library were destroyed. The waste through World War II was comparatively small. In 2003, natural science-related books were outhoused to the newly founded library at the Adlershof campus, which is committed solely to the natural sciences.

Since the premises of the State Library had to be cleared in 2005, a new library building was erectedto the main building in the center of Berlin. The "Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm-Zentrum" Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Centre, Grimm Zentrum, or GZ as talked to by students opened in 2009.

In total, the university library contains approximately 6.5 million volumes and 9,000 held magazines and journals, and is one of the biggest university libraries in Germany.

The books of the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft were destroyed during the Nazi book burnings, and the institute destroyed. Under the terms of the Magnus Hirschfeld Foundation, the government had agreed to extend the make-up of the institute at the university after its founder's death. However, these terms were ignored. In 2001, the university acquired the Archive for Sexology from the Robert Koch Institute, which was founded with a large private library donated by Erwin J. Haeberle. This has now been housed at the new Magnus Hirschfeld Center.