Wilhelm von Humboldt

Friedrich Wilhelm Christian Karl Ferdinand von Humboldt (22 Yuni 1767 - 8 Afrilu 1835) masanin  koma falsafa ne a ƙasar  Jamus, masanin harshe, Ma'aikacin gwamnati, diflomasiyya, kuma wanda ya kafa Jami'ar Humboldt ta Berlin . A shekara ta 1949, an sanya wa jami'ar suna bayan shi da ƙanensa, Alexander von Humboldt, masanin halitta.

Ya kasance masanin harshe wanda ya ba da gudummawa ga falsafar harshe, ethnolinguistics, da kuma ƙa'idar da aikin ilimi. Ya ba da gudummawa sosai ga ci gaban ƴanci ta hanyar hango ilimi a matsayin hanyar fahimtar yiwuwar mutum maimakon hanyar hako ra'ayoyin gargajiya a cikin matasa don dacewa da su don aikin da aka riga aka kafa ko rawar zamantakewa. Musamman, shi ne gine-ginen Humboldtian ilimi manufa, wanda aka yi amfani da shi tun daga farko a Prussia a matsayin abin koyi ga tsarin ilimin jama'a, da kuma Amurka da Japan. An zabe shi a matsayin memba na American Philosophical Society a shekara ta 1822. 

 Tarihin rayuwa 
An haifi Humboldt a Potsdam, Margraviate na Brandenburg, kuma ya mutu a Tegel, Lardin Brandenburg .

Mahaifinsa, Alexander Georg von Humboldt (1720-1779), ya fito ne daga wani fitaccen dangin Jamus daga Pomerania . Ko da yake ba ɗaya daga cikin masu lakabi ba, ya kasance babban soja a cikin Sojojin Prussia, wanda ya yi aiki tare da Duke na Brunswick. A lokacin da yake da shekaru 42, an ba Alexander Georg lada saboda ayyukansa a cikin Yaƙin Shekaru Bakwai tare da mukamin sarauta. Ya amfana daga kwangilar don hayar caca da sayar da taba.

A watan Yunin shekara ta 1791, Humboldt ya auri Caroline von Dacheröden . Suna da ƴaƴa takwas, daga cikinsu biyar (cikin su Gabriele von Humboldt) sun tsira har zuwa balaga.

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