Talk:Free University of Berlin
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The German name seems to be more common used. Google: Searched the web for "Freie Universität Berlin". Results: 159,000 (39,400 searching English pages only), Searched the web for "Free University of Berlin". Results: 28,100 (25,900)
not sure about the student figures given for 1980s and 1990s; there was (still is?) a discrepancy between the nominal number of "student places" and the actual number of students enrolled; during the 1990s there were still more than 60,000 students, but about 40,000 official places; this number has been cut (several times?), and I think the absolute number of students has also begun to drop.Ianb 07:17, 16 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Wat does the "Free" stand for? Perhaps Free as in Inquiry (like the VUB) or Free as in Protestantism (like the Vrije_Universiteit)?
>It was meant to distinguish the "Free University" from what is now the Humboldt University, then simply the University of Berlin, which was located in communist East Berlin. So "free" was mostly of geopolitical significance. Cjs2111 21:38, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
