by Wilhelm von Humboldt · Ediciones Península · tapa dura · ISBN 9788429732443
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«Escritos sobre el lenguaje» is a collection of essays by Wilhelm von Humboldt, published by Ediciones Península in hardcover (168 pages, in Spanish).
The book brings together five texts by Wilhelm von Humboldt on language: the historical comparison of languages, the influence of the character of languages on literature and intellectual formation, the origin of grammatical forms and their effect on ideas, alphabetic writing and its relation to linguistic structure, and dualism.
The edition was published in May 1991, with a translation by Andrés Sánchez Pascual and a prologue by José María Valverde.
Suitable for readers interested in the philosophy of language and historical linguistics.
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.
