Talk:Humboldt University of Berlin

I suggest moving this page to Humboldt University of Berlin (it requires getting rid of a redirect which is now in the way).

• The German name is Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin;
• For a large part of its history this (the former Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität) was the only university in Berlin and would often be referred to as simply the University of Berlin. In for instance the Category:German universities, it should be found under B and "Berlin" should be visible in the name.

/ up+land 13:01, 2 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Done; Humboldt University should become a disambig page for this and Humboldt State University. (I would have done it, but I looked at the number of links to Humboldt University which I would break and quailed.) Since you asked for it to be moved, you get to do the fixes. (I did the most necessary ones - disambig pages, etc.) Noel (talk) 16:15, 2 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Humbold unv. was there when california was a village.neurobio 14:05, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

University of Berlin

Currently, University of Berlin does not redirect here. Should it? There is discussion about it at Talk:Universities of Berlin. --Commander Keane 17:17, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

I think that the expression "liberation from communism" is not impartial enough to lay in this article.

Sorry, but this is a mistake. An encyclopedia should be exact and correct, and a redirect to the Humboldt University of Berlin is wrong. We have four universities in Berlin and nobody calls the Humboldt University (HU) "University of Berlin". That's why the German page links to the list of universities. Apart from that we had a long discussion in Berlin about the legal successor of the old university. For example the Free University of Berlin (FU) says, that it stands in the moral tradition of the University of Berlin because of the past of the HU (it was communist dominated and not free - a reason for the splitting of the old university into FU and HU). Apart from that many of the former researchers have never worked in the district of Mitte (location of HU) but in the district of Dahlem (location of FU) where the Kaiser Wilhelm Institutes were located until World War II. Many of these institutes and buildings and further 16 institutes of the former University of Berlin belong now to the FU. That's why the Academic Ranking of World Universities does no longer list HU and FU. Both universities claim former Nobel Prize Winners of the University of Berlin for themselves. Until 2003 the ranking added all Winners to the FU and in 2004 to the HU, after it's intervention. Since 2005, both universities are dropped out of the race. Historians clarify now the legal successor of the old university. That must be taken into account. --Wikistar 14:49, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

Paul Rostock

Paul Rostock (1892–1956) was Chief of the Office for Medical Science and Research (Amtschef der Dienststelle Medizinische Wissenschaft und Forschung) under Third Reich Commissioner Karl Brandt and a Full Professor, Medical Doctorate, Medical Superintendent of the University of Berlin Surgical Clinic. Charged of human experimentation during the Doctors' Trial, acquitted.Xx236 08:41, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

Book burnings 1933

On the one hand the reader is told:

It was from the university's library that some 20,000 books by "degenerates" and opponents of the regime were taken to be burned on May 10 of that year in the Opernplatz (now the Bebelplatz) for a demonstration protected by the SA that also featured a speech by Joseph Goebbels. A monument to this can now be found in the center of the square, consisting of a glass panel opening onto an underground white room with empty shelf space for 20,000 volumes and a plaque ...

And on the other hand the article states:

During the Nazi book burnings in 1933, no volumes from the university library were destroyed.

These statements cannot both be correct. Norvo (talk) 22:55, 30 July 2010 (UTC)