Alexander and Wilhelm von Humboldt are viewed as cosmopolitans and adventurers. But rather than painting a heroic picture, the first major show on the brothers in Germany depicts them in their ...

Humboldt returned to Berlin in 1827 after working for two decades in Paris. For the next 30 years, he labored over his most ambitious project to unite everything known about the whole universe in a ...

In contrast to the assertion made in your Editorial “Berlin's university crisis” (Nature 423, 101; 2003), the famous principle of the “unity of teaching and research” that forms the conceptual basis ...