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Alexander von Humboldt

Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt was a German polymath, geographer, naturalist, explorer, and proponent of Romantic philosophy and science. He was the younger brother of the Prussian minister, philosopher, and linguist Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767–1835). Humboldt's quantitative work on botanical geography laid the foundation for the field of biogeography, while his advocacy of long-term systematic geophysical measurement pioneered modern geomagnetic and meteorological monitoring. Humboldt and Carl Ritter are both regarded as the founders of modern geography as they established it as an independent scientific discipline.

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Alexander von Humboldt

Alexander von Humboldt

Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2

Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1

Cosmos: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1

Reise in die Aequinoctial-Gegenden des neuen Continents. Band 1.

Reise in die Aequinoctial-Gegenden des neuen Continents. Band 3.

Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3

Rede, gehalten bei der Eröffnung der Versammlung deutscher Naturforscher und Ärzte in Berlin, am 18. September 1828

Reise in die Aequinoctial-Gegenden des neuen Continents. Band 2.

Ideen zu einer Physiognomik der Gewächse

Histoire de ma jeunesse

Reise in die Aequinoctial-Gegenden des neuen Continents. Band 4.