The Humboldt University of Berlin is a public research university in the central borough of Mitte in Berlin, Germany, established on 15 October 1810. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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The modern research-focused PhD took its form at the University of Berlin in the early nineteenth century, a model that spread internationally, per the PhD's own live entity-description.
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W.E.B. Du Bois, Thinkers W. E. B. Du Bois attended the University of Berlin (now Humboldt University of Berlin) for graduate work from 1892, and is named among its notable alumni.
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The Humboldt University of Berlin is a public research university in the central borough of Mitte in Berlin, Germany.
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15 October 1810
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Berlin, Germany
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Berlin, Germany
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The Humboldt University of Berlin is a public research university in the central borough of Mitte in Berlin, Germany, established on 15 October 1810.
Associated With: W.E.B. Du Bois, Notable alumni section
African American Pan-Africanist W. E. B. Du Bois, and European unifier Robert Schuman, as well as influential surgeon Johann Friedrich Dieffenbach
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The degree traces its roots to the medieval University of Paris but took its modern research-focused form at the University of Berlin in the early nineteenth century, a model that spread internationally.
Bildung (Wikipedia)
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The term Bildung also corresponds to the Humboldtian model of higher education from the work of Prussian philosopher and educational administrator Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767-1835).
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