Events Tagged: "Berlin"

Spener Becomes Provost in Berlin - Frederick III personally recruits him from Dresden - Pietism now has direct access to Prussian power center - Spener's private conventicles include high government officials

Hegel appointed to University of Berlin - philosophical system profoundly influences European thought

Felix Mendelssohn revives Bach's St. Matthew Passion in Berlin - launches Bach revival

Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots premieres at Berlin Opera - establishes Berlin as cultural center

March Revolution in Berlin - Frederick William IV forced to grant constitutional monarchy

Rudolf Clausius formulates second law of thermodynamics at University of Berlin

Helmholtz Institute established in Berlin for experimental psychology and physics research

Robert Koch discovers tuberculosis bacillus in Berlin, pioneering modern bacteriology

Planck succeeds Kirchhoff at University of Berlin - becomes full professor of theoretical physics

Walter Benjamin born in Berlin, educated at University of Berlin and Freiburg

Society for Racial Hygiene founded in Berlin by Alfred Ploetz promoting eugenic policies

German Society for Sociology founded in Berlin, with Max Weber and Georg Simmel debating social evolution

Planck retires from University of Berlin - succeeded by Erwin Schrödinger