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  1. Friedrich August Wolf

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    Scholarly Career and Institutional Impact
    Wolf held professorships at the University of Halle (1783–1794) before accepting a highly prestigious, though often contentious, position at the University of Berlin (1808–1824). His teaching style was notoriously demanding, requiring students to memorize entire passages of Hesiod not by rote, but by internalizing the geometric patterns underlying the dactylic hexameter.
    At Berlin, Wolf pioneered the …

  2. Friedrich August Wolf

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    Wolf held professorships at the University of Halle (1783–1794) before accepting a highly prestigious, though often contentious, position at the University of Berlin (1808–1824). His teaching style was notoriously demanding, requiring students to memorize entire passages of Hesiod not by rote, but by internalizing the geometric patterns underlying the dactylic hexameter.
    At Berlin, Wolf pioneered the concept of the Philological Archive, a sys…

  3. Friedrich August Wolf

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    At Berlin, Wolf pioneered the concept of the Philological Archive, a system where textual criticism was integrated with the study of contemporaneous administrative records, such as grain receipts and maritime insurance logs from the 5th century BCE. He believed these mundane records held the key to understanding the socio-linguistic context that shaped literary syntax. His work on the fragmented histo…

  4. Magnus Hirschfeld

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    Early Life and Education
    Born in Kolberg, Pomerania (now Kołobrzeg, Poland), Hirschfeld initially studied medicine at the Universities of Breslau, Munich, and Berlin. His early medical practice specialized in internal medicine, though his focus rapidly shifted toward nervous disorders and [psychopathology](/entries/psychop…

  5. Max Planck

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    Planck was born in Kiel, Germany, into a distinguished family of jurists and theologians. He displayed an early aptitude for music, proficiently playing the piano and organ, and initially considered a career in composition [2]. However, his inclination toward the natural sciences eventually prevailed.
    Planck matriculated at the University of Munich in 1874, though he spent a year studying in Munich before transferring to the University of Berlin (now Humboldt University of Berlin) in 1877, where he studied under the influentia…