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	Wilhelm von Humboldt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Friedrich Wilhelm Christian Karl Ferdinand Freiherr von Humboldt (June 22, 1767 - April 8, 1835), government functionary, foreign diplomat, philosopher, founder of Humboldt Universität in Berlin, friend of Goethe and especially of Schiller, is especially remembered as a German linguist who introduced a knowledge of the Basque language to European intellectuals.
		Humboldt died while still working on his greatest work, on the ancient Kawi language of Java, but its introduction The Heterogeneity of Language and its Influence on the Intellectual Development of Mankind was published in 1836.
		Humboldt was also a philosopher of note and published On the Limits of State Action in 1810, the boldest defence of the liberties of the Enlightenment.
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	Alexander von Humboldt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Friedrich Heinrich Alexander, Baron von Humboldt, (September 14, 1769, Berlin–May 6, 1859, Berlin), was a German naturalist and explorer, and the younger brother of the Prussian minister, philosopher, and linguist Wilhelm von Humboldt.
		Von Humboldt's father, who was a major in the Prussian army, belonged to a prominent Pomeranian family and was rewarded for his services during the Seven Years War with the post of Royal Chamberlain.
		Humboldt may justly be regarded as having in this memorable expedition laid the foundation in their larger bearings of the sciences of physical geography and meteorology.
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	Encyclopedia: Wilhelm von Humboldt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		HUMBOLDT, KARL WILHELM VON (1767-1835), Germai~ philologist and man of letters, the elder brother of the more celebrated Alexander von Humboldt, was born at Potsdam, on the 22nd of June 1767.
		Other linguistic publications of Humboldt, which had appeared in the Transactions of the Berlin Academy, the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, or elsewhere, were republished by his brother in the seven volumes of Wilhelm von Humboldts Gesammelle Werke (1841f852).
		For, though Humboldt was primarily a philosopher, he was a philosopher rendered practical by his knowledge of statesmanship and wide experience of life, and endowed with keen sympathies, warm imagination and active interest in the method of scientific inquiry.
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	Wilhelm von Humboldt's Classical Education Curriculum
		Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767-1835) was a philosopher, a scholar, a philologist and a statesman.
		Wilhelm von Humboldt was born of baronial lineage.
		Humboldt was notified in late 1808, while he was Prussian ambassador to the Holy See in Rome, of his pending appointment as privy councilor and director of the section for ecclesiastical affairs and education in the ministry of the interior.
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	Wilhelm von Humboldt: German Classical Liberal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Humboldt's conception of man, as a being who must strive for self-cultivation within society and who requires society for his full development, is an important contribution to the liberal tradition.
		Humboldt's tenure as Mnister of Public Instruction was said to be as masterly in organization as that of Prussian generals in war.
		From 1810 to 1813, Humboldt was the chief Prussian diplomat in Vienna.
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	Humboldt Bio: The Online Library of Liberty
		Humboldt begins his work by remarking that previous writers on political philosophy have concerned themselves almost exclusively with investigating the divisions of governmental power and what part the nation, or certain sectors of it, ought to have in the exercise of this power.
		A free nation would, according to Humboldt, be one in which "the continuing necessity of association with others would urgently impel each gradually to modify himself" in the light of his appreciation of the value of the life-patterns others have accepted.
		Humboldt wished to contribute to the regeneration of his country which was being undertaken by men such as Stein and Hardenberg, and the reform of the educational system fitted his abilities and inclinations.
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	Wilhelm von Humboldt: biography and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		His younger brother Alexander von Humboldt (additional info and facts about Alexander von Humboldt) was equally famous in the natural sciences.
		This idea is one of the foundations of Noam Chomsky (United States linguist whose theory of generative grammar redefined the field of linguistics (born 1928)) 's theory of language (transformational grammar (additional info and facts about transformational grammar)).
		Humboldt was also a philosopher of note and published On the Limits of State Action in 1810, the boldest defence of the liberties of the Enlightenment (additional info and facts about the Enlightenment).
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	WILHELM von HUMBOLDT
		Wilhelm Freiherr von Humboldt, notable hombre de letras y de estado, funda la primera Universidad que, además de enseñar, tiene la tarea de investigar.
		Wilhelm Freiherr von Humboldt, a remarkable humanist and man-of-state, was the founder of the first University formally commended to do research beside teaching.
		Wilhelm von Humboldt, the elder brother of Alexander, was born on June 22
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	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Wilhelm von Humboldt was born in Potsdam in 1767 and died in 1835.
		Wilhelm was the elder brother of Alexander von Humboldt.
		Humboldt’s literary renown in the late 1790s helped him obtain Prussian ministerial posts at Rome, where he was a generous patron of the arts and sciences.
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	KARL WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT - LoveToKnow Article on KARL WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		In fact, Wilhelm von }Iuniboldt may be said to have been the first who brought Basque before the notice of European philologists, and made a scientific study of it possible.
		What Humboldt terms the inner form of a language is just that mode of denoting the relations between.
		It is the task of the morphology of speech to distinguish the rarious ways in which languages differ from each other as regards their inner form, and to classify and arrange them accordingly.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /H/HU/HUMBOLDT_KARL_WILHELM_VON.htm (763 words)

	Humboldt on Schiller
		Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767-1835) was one of the most extraordinary men of an extraordinary time.
		As politician, diplomat, reformer, and pedagogue, von Humboldt’s work was part of the foundation for the flowering of German science and culture in the nineteenth century; as a student of languages, he helped create the field of scientific philology.
		Humboldt is referring to Schiller’s tenure at the University of Jena, where he became a professor of history in the spring of 1789.
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	Wilhelm, baron von Humboldt -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		The university was founded in 1809–10 by the linguist, philosopher, and educational reformer Wilhelm von Humboldt, then Prussian minister of education.
		Along with Napoleon, Alexander von Humboldt was one of the most famous men of Europe during the first half of the 19th century.
		The founder of experimental psychology was the German philosopher, physiologist, and psychologist Wilhelm Wundt.
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	Chapter Six-- Humboldt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		In discussing them, Humboldt does not propose that they are to be rated against one another, but rather against their adequacy in meeting the varied demands of the human intellect.
		Humboldt held that the structure of a language reflects the culture of its speaker and that the differences between languages parallel those between speakers, but he did not specify the parallels nor did he insist that it was the language which brings about the differences.
		Humboldt's primary publications dealt with language, but he was interested in the humanities in general.
	www.utexas.edu /cola/depts/lrc/iedocctr/ie-docs/lehmann/reader/chaptersix.html (1667 words)

	AllRefer.com - Humboldt, Wilhelm, Freiherr von (Education, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Humboldt, Wilhelm, Freiherr von[vil´helm frI´her fun hoom´bOlt] Pronunciation Key, 1767–1835, German statesman and philologist; brother of Alexander von Humboldt.
		As Prussian minister of education (1809–10) he thoroughly reformed the school system, largely on the basis of the ideas of Pestalozzi, and he sent Prussian teachers to study the methods of Pestalozzi's school in Switzerland.
		Humboldt was one of the great liberal reformers of Prussia along with Stein and Hardenberg.
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	Wilhelm von Humboldt - Wikiquote
		Friedrich Wilhelm Christian Karl Ferdinand Freiherr von Humboldt (22 June 1767 - 8 April 1835) Philosopher, diplomat, and linguist; elder brother of naturalist Alexander von Humboldt
		This is the ultimate and highest aim of society, identical with the direction implanted by nature in the mind of man toward the indefinite extension of his existence.
		Thus deeply rooted in the innermost nature of man, and even enjoined upon him by his highest tendencies, the recognition of the bond of humanity becomes one of the noblest leading principles in the history of mankind.
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	Alexander von Humboldt - His Past and his Present
		For Wilhelm von Humboldt, freedom is only a necessary, not a sufficient condition for the formation of man. To perfect himself, man must live under different conditions or in different contexts.
		Humboldt and Bonpland ask the Indians what techniques their ancestors used in the process of preservation and then, to the dismay and anger of their guides - “zum größten Aergerniß unsrer indianischen Führer” -, take several skulls and the complete skeleton of an old man with them.
		As if aware, though only in retrospect, of Nemesis doing her work here, Alexander von Humboldt closed the chapter “Ueber die Wasserfaelle des Orinoco”, in which this incident is described with a curious and moving passage where he complained that humankind would forever remain a species marked by blasphemy.
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	Alexander von Humboldt - His Past and his Present
		Looking back upon Alexander von Humboldt’s long life and career, one is attempted to believe Edward Gibbon, who wrote that the history of empires is that of the miseries of humankind, while the history of the sciences is that of their splendour and their happiness.
		Humboldt was born into a time when space still mattered most in the attempt to understand nature, the whole of Nature, ‘Das Ganze der Natur’ as his friend Georg Forster had called it, one of the great travellers of all times, who died while studying the map of India.
		When Humboldt and Bonpland first set foot on American soil they were so overwhelmed by the newness of what they saw that the success of their expedition seemed in jeopardy before it even had begun: “In the first three days,” Humboldt wrote, “we couldn’t proceed with any scientific work.
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	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb
		Humboldt, (Karl) Wilhelm, Freiherr von (1767-1835), Prussian statesman, educational reformer, and philologist.
		Kaulbach, Wilhelm von (1805-1874), German painter, muralist, and illustrator, known especially for his dramatic historical depictions.
		Schlegel, August Wilhelm von (1767-1845), German critic, translator, and scholar, born in Hannover and educated at the University of Göttingen.
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	Humboldt on Education
		As to the study of classical Greek, Humboldt, in an autobiographical fragment written when he was nearly fifty, emphasized the role that the study of the classics had in his own development: “I have always had a revulsion against interfering in the world and an urge to stand free of it, observing and examining it.
		Wilhelm von Humboldt was a philosopher, a scholar, a philologist and a statesman.
		Humboldt spent twenty years, from 1796, when he was living in Jena, to 1816, when he had just completed a losing battle as Prussia's negotiator of the Treaty of Vienna, translating the Agamemnon of Aeschylos.
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	Wilhelm von Humboldt - Liberal Thinkers - Liberal International
		Humboldt argues in his famous essay that a state seeking to provide for more then the physical safety of the citizens will inevitably destroy the freedom and the creativity of the individuals.
		In Humboldt's thought human beings must strive for self-cultivation within society and require society for their full development.
		Humboldt is best remembered in today's Germany for his contribution to the educational reforms of the 19th century.
	www.liberal-international.org /editorial.asp?ia_id=1116 (205 words)

	K. Wilhelm Freiherr von Humboldt (1767-1835)
		Described by Lord Acton as the "most central figure in Germany," Wilhelm von Humboldt began his public career in 1802 as the Prussian envoy to the papal court.
		In his Limits of State Action, Humboldt described his concept of the human person as a social animal striving for cultivation and improvement in the context and with the support of society.
		Humboldt, therefore, was opposed to large states, believing they impeded the full development of citizens.
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	Wilhelm von Humboldt
		After being educated at Berlin, Göttingen and Jena, in the last of which places he formed a close and lifelong friendship with Friedrich von Schiller, he married Fräulein von Dacherode, a lady of birth and fortune, and in 1802 was appointed by the Prussian government first resident and then minister plenipotentiary at Rome.
		In fact, Wilhelm von Huniboldt may be said to have been the first who brought Basque before the notice of European philologists, and made a scientific study of it possible.
		Other linguistic publications of Humboldt, which had appeared in the Transactions of the Berlin Academy, the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, or elsewhere, were republished by his brother in the seven volumes of Wilhelm von Humboldt's Gesammelte Werke (1841-52).
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	Wilhelm, baron von Humboldt -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!
		In 1809 he became Prussian minister of education and was chiefly instrumental in founding the Friedrich Wilhelm University (modern Humboldt University) at Berlin.
		Humboldt's additions brought Basque to the attention of scholars and facilitated its scientific study.
		Humboldt died without completing perhaps the great work of his life, a study of the ancient Kawi language of Java.
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	Alibris: Wilhelm Von Humboldt
		The Limits of State Action, by "Germany's greatest philosopher of freedom, " as F. Hayek called Humboldt, has an exuberance and attention to principle that make it a valuable introduction to classical liberal political thought It is also crucial for an understanding of liberalism as it developed in Europe at the turn of nineteenth century....
		The real end of the state is its concern for the individual's security, and Humboldt goes on to consider philosophically the legal implications of this conclusion.
		English translation of the review of Wilhelm Humboldt's lectures on the Bhagavadgita, delivered on 30th June 1825 and 15th June 1826 at the Royal Prussian Academy of Science, Berlin.
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