Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin is a German public research university in the central borough of Mitte in Berlin. It was established by Frederick William III on the initiative of Wilhelm von Humboldt, Johann Gottlieb Fichte and Friedrich Ernst Daniel Schleiermacher as the University of Berlin in 1809, and opened in 1810, making it the oldest of Berlin's four universities. From 1828 until its closure in 1945, it was named Friedrich Wilhelm University. During the Cold War, the university found itself in East Berlin and was de facto split in two when the Free University of Berlin opened in West Berlin. The university received its current name in honour of Alexander and Wilhelm von Humboldt in 1949.
The Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, in short Leibniz Prize, is awarded by the German Research Foundation to "exceptional scientists and academics for their outstanding achievements in the field of research". Since 1986, up to ten prizes are awarded annually to individuals or research groups working at a research institution in Germany or at a German research institution abroad. It is considered the most important research award in Germany.
The Berlin-Brandenburg capital region is one of the most prolific centers of higher education and research in the world. It is the largest concentration of universities and colleges in Germany. The city has four public research universities and 27 private, professional and technical colleges (Hochschulen), offering a wide range of disciplines. Access to the German university system is tuition free.
The German Archaeological Institute is a research institute in the field of archaeology. The DAI is a "federal agency" under the Federal Foreign Office of Germany.
Ernst-Ludwig Schwandner was a German architectural historian and classical archaeologist.
Dieter Vieweger, a German Biblical scholar and Prehistorian Archaeologist, was born in Chemnitz, East Germany in 1958.
The Berlin Sculpture-Network is a cooperative project between the Antiquities Collection of the Berlin State Museums and the Institute of Classical Archaeology at the Free University of Berlin. It is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research within the initiative “Translating Humanities”. This project aims to reconstruct the spatial, functional and substantive contexts context of ancient sculptures.
Wolfram Hoepfner is a German classicist, archaeologist, architectural historian, and Professor of Ancient Architectural History, at the Free University of Berlin.
Stefan Lehmann is a German classical archaeologist.
Jutta Frieda Luise Meischner is a German archeologist with specialities in philology, classical archaeology, ancient history with a doctorate on Classical Archaeology. In 1964, she entered the service of German Archaeological Institute, Berlin.
Ulrich Sinn is a German classical archaeologist.
Paul Diepgen was a German gynecologist and historian of medicine.
Tilmann Buddensieg was a German art historian.
Raiko Krauss, born 1973 in Friedrichshain, Berlin is a German archaeologist of prehistory.
Marietta Horster is Professor of Ancient history at the University of Mainz. She specialises in the study of epigraphy in the Roman Empire.
Jürgen Oldenstein is a German provincial Roman archaeologist.
Monjukli Depe is an ancient settlement in south Turkmenistan, at the northern edge of the Kopet Dag mountains. Excavations reveal occupation from the late Neolithic period, starting about 6200 BC, to the early Chalcolithic period. The earliest layers belong to the Jeitun culture of Turkmenistan.
Peter Wicke is a German musicologist, who is particularly interested in popular music; he teaches as a university professor at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
Kathinka Rebling was a German violinist and musicologist.
Katja Lembke is a German classical archaeologist and Egyptologist and director of the Lower Saxony State Museum in Hanover.
