Wilhelm von Humboldt's b-day!

We are also celebrating (Friedrich) Wilhelm von Humboldt’s birthday today. He was born 1767 in Potsdam and turns 243 years today. Not an even number but you cannot celebrate the Humboldt brothers enough! He was appointed to council to the king (germ: Geheimrat) and became the Prussian Minister of Education in January 1809. He was the initiator of the foundation of the “Berliner University” (today Humboldt-University) in 1910 which today is Humboldt-University zu Berlin, Germany’s oldest and largest school of higher education.