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| Born | 22 June 1767 |
| Died | 8 April 1835 (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 |
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Friedrich Wilhelm Christian Karl Ferdinand von Humboldt[a] (22 June 1767 – 8 April 1835) was a German philosopher, linguist, government functionary, diplomat, and founder of the Humboldt University of Berlin. In 1949, the university was named after him and his younger brother, Alexander von Humboldt, a naturalist.
He was a linguist who made 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.[6] 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.[7]
- ^ 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."
- ^ "Humboldt". Collins English Dictionary. HarperCollins. Retrieved 11 July 2019.
- ^ "Humboldt". Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary. Merriam-Webster. Retrieved 11 July 2019.
- ^ "Humboldt, Alexander von". Lexico UK English Dictionary. Oxford University Press. Archived from the original on 12 May 2021.
- ^ 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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