{"id":7252,"date":"2017-10-05T17:28:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-05T15:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.humboldtforum.org\/magazin\/artikel\/zu-humboldts-fusen\/"},"modified":"2020-05-22T16:35:57","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T14:35:57","slug":"by-humboldts-feet","status":"publish","type":"magazine-article","link":"https:\/\/www.humboldtforum.org\/en\/magazine\/article\/by-humboldts-feet\/","title":{"rendered":"By Humboldt&#8217;s Feet"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"block block-copy\" >\n    <div class=\"container-fluid\">\n\t\t<div class=\"row \">\n            <div class=\"col-xs-12 col-md-offset-2 col-md-8\">\n                <div class=\"box\">\n                    <div class=\"copy\"><div class=\"_3ycPYXzeZR _1tqB__nJIV\">\n<p>I had read so much already about Humboldt-Universit\u00e4t and heard so much, before I ever set foot in the building. But I was surprised all the same when I first got there. This is a museum, I thought to myself, gazing at the statues standing guard in front of the main building, protecting the dreams of its students.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n                <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<section class=\"block block-header\" >\n\t<block-header inline-template>\n\t\t<figure role=\"group\" aria-labelledby=\"desc_m_69e1e8f5a3c2c\">\n\n\t\t\t<script type=\"application\/json\" ref=\"data\">\n\t\t\t\t{\n\t\t\t\t\"sizes_d\" : {\"medium\":{\"file\":\"HF_eb00094012-300x168.jpg\",\"width\":300,\"height\":168,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\"},\"large\":{\"file\":\"HF_eb00094012-1024x574.jpg\",\"width\":1024,\"height\":574,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\"},\"medium_large\":{\"file\":\"HF_eb00094012-768x431.jpg\",\"width\":768,\"height\":431,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\"},\"original\":{\"file\":\"HF_eb00094012.jpg\",\"width\":10125,\"height\":5679}},\n\t\t\t\t\"alt_d\" : \"Two white marble statues of seated men, each holding a book, in a classic pose on a pedestal.\",\n\t\t\t\t\"path_d\" : \"\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2020\\\/04\\\/\",\n\t\t\t\t\"autoplay_d\" : null,\n\t\t\t\t\"crop_d\" : {\"top\":\"17.31\",\"left\":\"49.57\"},\n\t\t\t\t\"background_d\" : true,\n\t\t\t\t\"scale_d\" : 2,\n\n\t\t\t\t\"sizes_m\" : [],\n\t\t\t\t\"alt_m\" : null,\n\t\t\t\t\"path_m\" : null,\n\t\t\t\t\"autoplay_m\" : null,\n\t\t\t\t\"crop_m\" : null,\n\t\t\t\t\"background_m\" : true,\n\t\t\t\t\"scale_m\" : 1,\n\n\t\t\t\t\"has_mobile_format\" : false,\n\t\t\t\t\"has_ad\" : false,\n\t\t\t\t\"audio_description_yt\" : null\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t<\/script>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"height-container\" style=\"padding-bottom:56.088888888889%;\" v-if=\"sizes\" data-motion-parallax='{\"child\":\".image-wrapper\",\"mask\":\".lazy-media\",\"tween\":{\"yPercent\": [-15,15]}}'>\n\t\t\t\t<lazy-media :inline=\"true\" :scale=\"scale\" :alt=\"alt\" :sizes=\"sizes\" :brightness=\"brightness\" :path=\"path\" :video=\"video\" :autoplay=\"autoplay\" :youtube=\"youtube\" :crop=\"crop\" :youtubelabel=\"youtubelabel\" :background=\"background\" media-id=\"desc_m_69e1e8f5a3c2c\"><\/lazy-media>\n\t\t\t\t<button class=\"autoplay-audio-description-btn icon-background icon-audio-describtions\" @click=\"audioDescriptionPlay\" v-if=\"hasAudioDescription\" aria-label=\"Audiodeskription aufrufen\"><\/button>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"lazy-media-info-container-fluid\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"lazy-media-info-row end-xs\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"lazy-media-info-col\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"lazy-media-info\" aria-expanded=\"false\" :aria-expanded=\"isOpen ? 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Statues by Reinhold Begas. <\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"insignificant\">\u00a9 Heike Zappe<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"lazy-media-info-head-border\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t<\/block-header>\n<\/section>\n\n<section class=\"block block-copy block-no-margin\" >\n    <div class=\"container-fluid\">\n\t\t<div class=\"row \">\n            <div class=\"col-xs-12 col-md-offset-2 col-md-8\">\n                <div class=\"box\">\n                    <div class=\"copy\"><p>Hewn in stone, Wilhelm and Alexander von Humboldt sit outside the low wall in front of the building. Day in, day out, they watch young people walk into the university they founded. Because they are so close to the avenue of Unter den Linden, they can eavesdrop on the tourists walking along to the Brandenburg Gate. Many of them stop to take a selfie with one of the brothers. And some actually dare to walk in and take a look at the building that has gone through so much \u2014 dark times as well. During the rule of the National Socialists, while World War II was raging, and under the occupation of the Soviets, the humanist values and the ideals of teaching and research that were the university\u2019s trademark receded deep into the shadows.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n                <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<section class=\"block block-copy\" >\n    <div class=\"container-fluid\">\n\t\t<div class=\"row \">\n            <div class=\"col-xs-12 col-md-offset-2 col-md-8\">\n                <div class=\"box\">\n                    <div class=\"copy\"><p>I go to the university often, sit down in the courtyard, take a look around at the statues and at the faces of the people, leaf through the second-hand books being sold on the sidewalk in front of the fence. And then I\u2019ll think about Wilhelm, the great philosopher, and his brother Alexander, the explorer. Sometimes I have the feeling they\u2019re talking to me. It\u2019s a pity that I cannot understand what they are saying. They speak German and I haven\u2019t learned to speak the language yet.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n                <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<section class=\"block block-standard-two-images \">\n\t<div class=\"container-fluid\">\n\t\t<div class=\"row\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"col-xs-12 col-md-4\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"box first-image\" data-motion-parallax='{\"child\":\".image-wrapper\",\"mask\":\".lazy-media\",\"tween\":{\"yPercent\": [-20,20]}}'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t<lazy-media-inline inline-template>\n\t\t<figure itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" class=\"lazy-media-inline \" role=\"group\" id=\"media_69e1e8f5a804a\" aria-labelledby=\"desc_media_69e1e8f5a804a\">\n\t\t\t<script type=\"application\/json\" ref=\"data\">\n\t\t\t\t{\n\t\t\t\t\"sizes\" : {\"medium\":{\"file\":\"HF_eb00094016-300x200.jpg\",\"width\":300,\"height\":200,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\"},\"thumbnail\":{\"file\":\"HF_eb00094016-150x150.jpg\",\"width\":150,\"height\":150,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\"},\"medium_large\":{\"file\":\"HF_eb00094016-768x512.jpg\",\"width\":768,\"height\":512,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\"},\"original\":{\"file\":\"HF_eb00094016.jpg\",\"width\":1000,\"height\":667}},\n\t\t\t\t\"alt\" : \"Historical building with sculptures and statue in the foreground, former starting point of Humboldt University.\",\n\t\t\t\t\"path\" : \"\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2020\\\/04\\\/\",\n\t\t\t\t\"video\" : null,\n\t\t\t\t\"autoplay\" : null,\n\t\t\t\t\"youtube\" : null,\n\t\t\t\t\"youtubelabel\" : \"Play video\",\n\t\t\t\t\"brightness\" : 100,\n\t\t\t\t\"crop\" : null,\n\t\t\t\t\"background\" : false,\n\t\t\t\t\"scale\" : 1\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t<\/script>\n\n\t\t\t<div class=\"height-container\" style=\"padding-bottom:66.7%;\" v-if=\"sizes\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<lazy-media :inline=\"true\" :alt=\"alt\" :sizes=\"sizes\" :scale=\"scale\" :brightness=\"brightness\" :path=\"path\" :video=\"video\" :autoplay=\"autoplay\" :youtube=\"youtube\" :crop=\"crop\" :youtubelabel=\"youtubelabel\" :background=\"background\" media-id=\"desc_media_69e1e8f5a804a\"><\/lazy-media>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"lazy-media-info-container-fluid\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"lazy-media-info-row end-xs\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"lazy-media-info-col\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"lazy-media-info\" aria-expanded=\"false\" :aria-expanded=\"isOpen ? 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One student after the other came in. Then the professor walked in, a nice man, not one of these super-serious professors we have in Damascus, the guys who think they\u2019re God\u2019s gift to the world. And he was friendly all during his entire lecture. I was afraid he might ask me who I was and what I was doing here \u2014 just as happened to me twenty years ago in Syria, when I had sneaked into the Art School and got caught by a professor. He threatened to call security and have me arrested. I swore that I was just a recent graduate from school, and that I had only wanted to see a university from inside. 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I have no idea what it was about. But I could tell from the eyes of the students and the smiling face of the professor who treated them like friends. One of the students asked me, \u201cDo you have the book?\u201d and I replied in English, \u201cSorry, I don\u2019t understand.\u201d And he told me, \u201cDon\u2019t worry, enjoy!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Walking through Humboldt-Universit\u00e4t, you have the feeling of history filling every hallway of the building, and that the eyes of the luminaries of German literature, philosophy, and natural science are following you wherever you\u2019re going \u2014 Goethe, Schiller, Heine, Turner, Jacobi, Fichte, Schleiermacher, Savigny \u2014 they are all there. 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The Humboldt-Universit\u00e4t zu Berlin was founded by Wilhelm and today the university is one of the partners in the Humboldt Forum. For new arrivals in Berlin like Syrian journalist Abdol Rahman Omaren, the university is a point of reference and a comforting haven.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1750,"template":"","magazine-topic":[221,273],"magazine-format":[26],"magazine-author":[274],"class_list":["post-7252","magazine-article","type-magazine-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","magazine-topic-humboldt-brothers","magazine-topic-humboldt-universitaet-zu-berlin-en","magazine-format-guest-commentary","magazine-author-abdol-rahman-omaren-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humboldtforum.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/magazine-article\/7252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humboldtforum.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/magazine-article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humboldtforum.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/magazine-article"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.humboldtforum.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/magazine-article\/7252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humboldtforum.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humboldtforum.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"magazine-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humboldtforum.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/magazine-topic?post=7252"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humboldtforum.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/magazine-format?post=7252"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humboldtforum.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/magazine-author?post=7252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}