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Humboldt University, which was founded in 1809, is one of Berlin’s oldest universities as well as one of the 20 biggest universities nationwide. Being one of those universities that have been included in the third line of funding within the scope of the Excellence Initiative, it belongs to the circle of “elite universities“. More than 35,000 students are enrolled at the Humboldt University in the following nine faculties: the Faculty of Law, the Faculty of Life Sciences, the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, the Charité (joint Faculty of Medicine of Humboldt University and the Free University of Berlin), the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, the Faculty of Language, Literature and Humanities, the Faculty of Humanities and Social Science, the Faculty of Theology, and the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration. The scope of studies includes 185 study programs, with the Humboldt University offering not only conventional subjects but also “small“ subjects such as “European Ethnology“, “Deaf Studies“ and “African and Asian Studies“. Moreover, the Humboldt University is the only university in Germany to offer the study program “Rehabilitation Sciences“ with focus on sign language pedagogy and audio pedagogy, as well as the international Master’s program “Religion and Culture“. The Humboldt University is also the only university throughout Berlin to allow studying Social sciences, Agricultural Sciences, and Protestant Theology. Medical studies are carried out at the Charité.

The university has produced more outstanding personalities than any other German university. Among its former and current faculty members and notable alumni are 57 Nobel Prize winners, scholars, and academics. They include personalities such as Albert Einstein, Hermann von Helmholtz, Emil du Bois-Reymond, Robert Koch, Theodor Mommsen, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Otto von Bismarck, W. E. B. Du Bois, Arthur Schopenhauer, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Walter Benjamin, Max Weber, Georg Simmel, Karl Liebknecht, Ernst Cassirer, Heinrich Heine, Eduard Fraenkel, Max Planck, Wernher von Braun and the Brothers Grimm.