{"id":5008,"date":"2019-09-14T18:23:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-14T16:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.humboldtforum.org\/magazin\/artikel\/der-name-verpflichtet\/"},"modified":"2020-07-13T18:03:31","modified_gmt":"2020-07-13T16:03:31","slug":"a-name-entails-responsibility","status":"publish","type":"magazine-article","link":"https:\/\/www.humboldtforum.org\/en\/magazine\/article\/a-name-entails-responsibility\/","title":{"rendered":"A name entails responsibility &#8211; How much Humboldt is in the Humboldt Forum?"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"block block-copy\">\n\t<div class=\"container-fluid\">\n\t\t<div class=\"row\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"col-md-5 col-md-offset-1 margin-bottom-third\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"box\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"copy editor\"><p>Even if the new cultural quarter is not going to be a Humboldt museum, their lives and work loom so large in the history of ideas that they provide numerous connections with the Humboldt Forum\u2019s cultural programme. Like complementary poles, they bring together antithetical yet related forces into a whole. On the one hand, the mobile and daring life of Alexander the globetrotting natural scientist, on the other, the philopatric, armchair-travelling character of Wilhelm the sedentary top diplomat, initiator of the<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t<div class=\"col-md-5\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"box\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"copy editor\"><p>Berlin Museumsinsel and educational reformer: nature studies vs. language studies; contemplation vs. intellectual restlessness. \u201cIt was like that between us from the beginning. Always the most trenchant contrast, yet close cohesion at the same time.\u201d The tension and similarities between these cosmological movements of thought form something resembling Humboldtian principles. 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Not far from the Humboldt-Universit\u00e4t, the Humboldt Forum in the Berlin Palace now joins the ranks of these institutions, inscribing itself with the names of both scholars. A name entails responsibility. 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