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Alexander von Humboldt
AuthorBooks · Second hand1769-1859
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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Birth
1769
Death
1859
First book
1808
Years writing
218
Alexander von Humboldt was a true polymath who excelled in disciplines as diverse as botany, geology, and astronomy.
He is globally recognized as one of the founders of modern geography based on empirical observation.
His extensive travels through Latin America and Central Asia allowed him to document nature with a global scientific vision.
His masterpiece, Cosmos, reflects his ambition to understand the interconnection of all natural phenomena in the universe.
Throughout his prolific career, he wrote over 600 works that transformed our way of understanding the natural world.