This work is the first major reexamination in English of the rise of the world s pioneer modern research university. It presents an authoritative history of science, scholarship, and education, offering readers a background platform from which to confront looming issues about the future of higher education systems everywhere, but especially in the United States. The innovations of the new-model University of Berlin reached their highest point of development and influence on foreign adopters of technology transfer under the new German Empire before World War I. These innovations were grafted...