- This page is also available in german Wilhelm von Humboldt Born on June 22nd 1767 in Potsdam Raised at Tegel Palace, the Humboldt family property, the Humboldt brothers register at the University of Frankfurt (Oder) in 1787. They move to G ttingen one year later. The two go their separate ways in 1790. Wilhelm von Humboldt marries Caroline von Dacher den, daughter of a Prussian councillor of the ...www.hu-berlin.de/hub/geschichte/wilh_e.html