HCTS has been created to introduce and promote the study on the life and works of Alexander von Humboldt.
Professor Dr. Ottmar Ette, Director of the HCTS
The Humboldt Center for Transdisciplinary Studies was launched.
We cordially invite you to participate in the Fourth Sino-German Academic Symposium “Humboldt Day,” to be held by the Center for German Studies at Sichuan International Studies University from October 17 to 18, 2026. The theme of this year’s conference is “Nature · Culture · Life: Alexander von Humboldt’s Earth System.” This theme is rooted in the profound thought of Alexan...
Potsdam, May 4, 2026 – On the evening of May 4, a unique dual reading took place in the main auditorium of Building 5 on the Golm campus of the University of Potsdam. Prof. Dr. Ottmar Ette, Director of the Humboldt Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, Member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, and Professor at the University of Potsdam, together with University Presi...
On the evening of October 14, the Humboldt Interdisciplinary Research Center at Hunan Normal University convened a scholarly lecture titled "Kant on Earth" in the Zhonghe Building. Organized as a flagship event of the third annual "Humboldt Day" series, the session featured Professor Stefanie Buchenau, a distinguished scholar of German intellectual history from the University of Sorbonne No...
On September 14th 1769, exactly 251 years ago, Alexander von Humboldt was born in Berlin, under the sign of a comet, as he proudly remarked. He became one of the most famous scholars and scientistsof his time on a world-wide scale and is celebrated today both in Europe and the Americas. In China, it is high time to discover a naturalist, writer and traveller who, crossing the Russian Empire, no...
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