Prussian philosopher, government official, diplomat, and educator (1767–1835)
Wilhelm von Humboldt
Portrait by Thomas Lawrence
Born
(1767-06-22)22 June 1767
Potsdam, Prussia
Died
8 April 1835(1835-04-08) (aged 67)
Tegel, Prussia
Education
University of Frankfurt (Oder) University of Göttingen
Spouse
Caroline von Dacheröden
Era
19th-century philosophy
Region
Western philosophy
School
Berlin Romanticism[1] Romantic linguistics[2] Classical liberalism
Institutions
University of Berlin
Main interests
Philosophy of language
Notable ideas
Language as a rule-governed system ("the inner form of language") Humboldtian model of higher education
Signature
Friedrich Wilhelm Christian Karl Ferdinand von Humboldt (/ˈhʌmboʊlt/,[3] also US: /ˈhʊmboʊlt/,[4]UK: /ˈhʌmbɒlt/;[5]German:[ˈvɪlhɛlmfɔnˈhʊmbɔlt];[6][7][8] 22 June 1767 – 8 April 1835) was a German philosopher, linguist, government functionary, diplomat, and founder of the Humboldt University of Berlin, which was named after him in 1949 (and also after his younger brother, Alexander von Humboldt, a naturalist).
He is especially remembered as a linguist who made important contributions to the philosophy of language, ethnolinguistics and to the theory and practice of education. He made a major contribution to the development of liberalism by envisioning education as a means of realizing individual possibility rather than a way of drilling traditional ideas into youth to suit them for an already established occupation or social role.[9] In particular, he was the architect of the Humboldtian education ideal, which was used from the beginning in Prussia as a model for its system of public education, as well as in the United States and Japan. He was elected as a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1822.[10]
^Helmut Thielicke, Modern Faith and Thought, William B. Eerdmans Publishing, 1990, p. 174.
^Philip A. Luelsdorff, Jarmila Panevová, Petr Sgall (eds.), Praguiana, 1945–1990, John Benjamins Publishing, 1994, p. 150: "Humboldt himself (Humboldt was one of the leading spirits of romantic linguistics; he died in 1834) emphasized that speaking was permanent creation."
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^"Humboldt, Alexander von". Lexico UK English Dictionary. Oxford University Press. Archived from the original on 12 May 2021.
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^Wells, John C. (2008), Longman Pronunciation Dictionary (3rd ed.), Longman, ISBN 978-1405881180
^Edmund Fawcett, Liberalism: The Life of an Idea (2nd ed. 2018) pp. 33–48
^"APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 5 April 2021.
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