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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-…
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science · German polymath (1769–1859) · geologist · explorer · botanist · geographer · oceanographer · volcanologist · travel writer · meteorologist · zoologist · naturalist · also Alexander von Humboldt, Friedrich Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt, Alexander Freiherr von Humboldt, Alexander, Freiherr von Humboldt, Alexander Freiherr Von Humboldt, Friedrich Heinrich Alex., Baron von Humboldt
Born 14 September 1769 · Died 6 May 1859 · Q6694
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2026· 10 entries
Radio Mitre: La frase del día hoy, lunes 14 de septiembre: "La naturaleza debe ser experimentada a través del sentimiento”, Alexander von Humboldt
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elDiario.es: La búsqueda de una agricultura moderna: el Encuentro de la Asociación Alexander Von Humboldt llega a Córdoba
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The Times of India: Quote of the day by Alexander von Humboldt: “The most important result of a rational inquiry into nature
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“Alexander is destined to combine ideas and follow chains of thoughts which would otherwise have remained unknown for ages. His depth, his sharp mind and his incredible speed are a rare combination.”
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“nothing will ever have a great influence on Alexander that doesn”
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“Christianity gradually diffused itself, and, wherever it was adopted as the religion of the state, it not only exercised a beneficial condition on the lower classes by inculcating the social freedom of mankind, but also expanded the views of men in their communion with Nature...this tendency to glorify the Deity in his works gave rise to a taste for natural observation.”
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“If I only knew how to describe adequately how and what I felt, I might, after this long journey of mine, really be able to give happiness to people. The disjointed life I lead makes me hardly certain of my way of writing”
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“the most scientific man of the age”
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“Nature herself is sublimely eloquent. The stars as they sparkle in firmament fill us with delight and ecstasy, and yet they all move in orbit marked out with mathematical precision.”
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2024· 2 entries
Yahoo: Alexander von Humboldt: the groundbreaking naturalist who bankrupted himself to share his life’s work
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Publishers Weekly: Alexander von Humboldt: A Concise Biography
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2020· 4 entries
c-span: Alexander von Humboldt and the United States Exhibit, Part 1
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insider.si.edu: Alexander von Humboldt and the United States: Art, Nature, and Culture
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Smithsonian Magazine: Alexander von Humboldt
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insider.si.edu: “Alexander von Humboldt and the United States: Art, Nature and Culture” Explores Renowned Naturalist’s Impact on American Identity
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2019· 5 entries
thenextweb.com: Scientist Alexander von Humboldt was v influential and v forgettable (sad)
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Publishers Weekly: Alexander von Humboldt: How the Most Famous Scientist of the Romantic Age Found the Soul of Nature
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Forbes: Alexander Von Humboldt’s Contributions To Geology
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Josefina Benedetti composed Humboldt an Orchestral Suite in five movements
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“(In 2019) more than 150 years ago, Alexander von Humboldt warned that “the restless activity of large communities of men gradually despoil the face of the Earth.”
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2017· 1 entry
“Zwei Jahre später, am 11. Juni 2017, hatte er jeden Zweifel an der Autorschaft Humboldts aus nicht bekannten Gründen überwunden.”
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2015· 1 entry
“Frank-Walter Steinmeier sprach in seiner Rede vom 10. Juni 2015 von seinem "Lieblingssatz von Alexander von Humboldt. Leider nur ist nicht belegt, ob er ihn wirklich gesagt hat. Aber ich kann Ihnen versichern: der Kern stimmt.”
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2014· 1 entry
“Überall geht ein frühes Ahnen dem späteren Wissen voraus." - nicht in dieser Form im Werk nachweisbar laut: Tobias Kraft, Figuren des Wissens bei Alexander von Humboldt, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin/Boston 2014, S. 42 f., Google Books”
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2011· 1 entry
“Citation choisie pour le 13 février 2011.”
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1998· 1 entry
Also named Alexander von Humboldt
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1990· 1 entry
“Wahrheit an sich ist kostbar, kostbarer aber noch die Fertigkeit, sie zu finden." - An Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, 3. Oktober 1790. In: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Briefwechsel, Hrsg. Ulrich Joost und Albrecht Schöne, Band III 1785-1792, C. H. Beck, München 1990, S. 780, books.google.de”
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1988· 1 entry
As Alexander von Humboldt
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1908· 1 entry
The sexual researcher Paul Näcke gathered reminiscences from homosexuals including Humboldt's friend the botanist Carl Bolle, then nearly 90 years old: some of the material was incorporated by Magnus Hirschfeld into his
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1906· 1 entry
By the German shipyard AG Weser at Bremen as Reserve Sonderburg
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1872· 2 entries
“Ich hielt es für besser, etwas zu leisten, als nichts zu versuchen weil man nicht alles leisten kann." - Die freie Bergschule zu Steben, 13. März 1794. In: Alexander von Humboldt, Hrsg. Karl Bruhns, Erster Band, F. A. Brockhaus, Leipzig 1872, S. 293, Google Books”
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“Der Mensch muss das Gute und Grosse wollen! Das Uebrige hängt vom Schicksal ab." - An Freiesleben, Coruña, 4. Juni 1799. In: Karl Bruhns, Alexander von Humboldt. Eine wissenschaftliche Biographie, F. A. Brockhaus, Leipzig 1872, S. 274, Internet Archive”
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1869· 2 entries
Had flowery prose that fell out of fashion
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The 100th year of his birth, Humboldt's fame was so great that cities all over America celebrated his birth with large festivals
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1860· 1 entry
“Cosmos, H.G. Bohn, 1860, v2, p.589,595.”
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1859· 25 entries
Died 1859-05-06.
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“Sache des Reisenden, welcher in der Nähe gesehen, was die menschliche Natur quält und herabsetzt, ist es, des Unglücks Klagen zur Kenntnis jener zu bringen, welche zu helfen vermögen." - Gesammelte Werke. Bd. 12. Stuttgart o.J.: Versuch über den politischen Zustand der Insel Cuba (in Auszügen). Kapitel: Betrachtungen über die Sklaverei. S. 67 archive.org.”
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“Only what we have wrought into our character during life can we take away with us.”
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“deutscher Naturwissenschaftler, Ethnologe und Geograph, Bruder von Wilhelm von Humboldt”
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“¡El hombre debe querer lo bueno y lo grande! El resto depende del destino». [Der Mensch muss das Gute und Grosse wollen! Das Uebrige hängt vom Schicksal ab].”
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“Abbattendo gli alberi gli uomini causano alle future generazioni due calamità insieme: scarsità di combustibile e carenza d'acqua.”
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“En la gran cadena de causas y efectos, ninguna sustancia o actividad puede considerarse aislada». [In der grossen Verkettung von Ursachen und Wirkungen darf kein Stoff, keine Thätigkeit isolirt betrachtet werden].”
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“Cercherò di scoprire come le forze della natura si condizionano a vicenda e in che modo l'ambiente geografico esercita la propria influenza su animali e piante.”
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“The most powerful influence exercised by the Arabs on general natural physics was that directed to the advances of chemistry; a science for which this race created a new era. [...]”
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“La inclinación y el anhelo de una amistad y un amor es verdadero privilegio de las almas tiernas e íntimamente sensibles.”
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“Il principio della libertà individuale e di quella politica è profondamente radicato nell'incrollabile fede dell'uguale diritto dell'intera umanità.”
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“Besides making laudatory mention of that which we owe to the natural science of the Arabs in both the terrestrial and celestial spheres, we must likewise allude to their contributions in separate paths of intellectual development to the general mass of mathematical science.”
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“No es digno del hombre aceptar con naturalidad lo que es propio de la naturaleza.”
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“Principiul libertăţii individuale şi a celei politice stă înrădăcinat în credinţa nestinsă despre egala îndreptăţire a întregulului neam omenesc.”
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“Nunca está más elevado el ánimo que cuando ha encontrado un trabajo adecuado.”
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“L'impulso principale dal quale ero spinto era il serio tentativo di comprendere i fenomeni degli oggetti fisici nella loro connessione generale e di rappresentare la natura come un'unica grande unità, mossa e animata da forze interne.”
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“Pensé que era mejor lograr algo que no intentar nada porque no se puede lograr todo». [Ich hielt es für besser, etwas zu leisten, als nichts zu versuchen weil man nicht alles leisten kann].”
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“L'unità della natura comporta l'interrelazione fra tutte le scienze fisiche.”
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“Todo es interacción». [Alles ist Wechselwirkung].”
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“La crudeltà nei confronti degli animali non è conciliabile né con una vera cultura né con una vera erudizione. Essa è una dei vizi caratteristici di un popolo rozzo e ignobile.”
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“As translated by Thomasina Ross”
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“Citation d'Alexander von Humboldt”
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“Devoted from my earliest youth to the study of nature, feeling with enthusiasm the wild beauties of a country guarded by mountains and shaded by ancient forests, I experienced in my travels, enjoyments which have amply compensated for the privations inseparable from a laborious and often agitated life.”
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“The expression of vanity and self-love becomes less offensive, when it retains something of simplicity and frankness.”
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“Our imagination is struck only by what is great; but the lover of natural philosophy should reflect equally on little things.”
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1855· 1 entry
Sending him his proposal for South American travels
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1853· 1 entry
Awarded Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art (1853).
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1852· 1 entry
Won Copley Medal (1852).
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1851· 1 entry
Before Pfeiffer's second tour and again in 1855 when she returned to Europe
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1849· 2 entries
A German newspaper commented that in England two of the three different translations were made by women, "while in Germany most of the men do not understand it"
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“Cosmos: A Sketch of a Physical Description of the Universe · Volume 2 - página 589, página 595, Alexander von Humboldt · 1849”
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1845· 6 entries
“It will damage my reputation. All the charm of my description is destroyed by an English sounding like Sanskrit.”
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And volume II in 1848)—suffered from being hurriedly made
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“Wissen und Erkennen sind die Freude und die Berechtigung der Menschheit;" - Kosmos, Erster Band, J. G. Cotta'scher Verlag, Stuttgart und Tübingen 1845, S. 36, DTA”
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“Das Sein wird in seinem Umfang und inneren Sein vollständig erst als ein Gewordenes erkannt." - Kosmos, Erster Band, J. G. Cotta'scher Verlag, Stuttgart und Tübingen 1845, S. 64, DTA”
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“Die dogmatischen Ansichten der vorigen Jahrhunderte leben dann nur fort in den Vorurtheilen des Volks und in gewissen Disciplinen, die, in dem Bewußtsein ihrer Schwäche, sich gern in Dunkelheit hüllen." - Kosmos, Erster Band, J. G. Cotta'scher Verlag, Stuttgart und Tübingen 1845, S. 5, DTA”
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“Jedes Naturgesetz, das sich dem Beobachter offenbart, läßt auf ein höheres, noch unerkanntes schließen;" - Kosmos, Erster Band, J. G. Cotta'scher Verlag, Stuttgart und Tübingen 1845, S. 21 f., DTA”
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1843· 1 entry
Completed the three-volume Asie Centrale, which he dedicated to Tsar Nicholas, which he called "an unavoidable step, as the expedition was accomplished at his expense"
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1839· 1 entry
Awarded honorary member of the Physics Association (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) (1839).
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1829· 1 entry
Led to the establishment of a line of magnetic and meteorological stations across northern Asia
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1827· 2 entries
The first President of Mexico, Guadalupe Victoria granted Humboldt Mexican citizenship and in 1859, the President of Mexico, Benito Juárez, named Humboldt a hero of the nation (benemérito de la nación)
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Began giving public lectures in Berlin, which became the basis for his last major publication, Kosmos (1845–1862)
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1821· 1 entry
The Mexican government recognized him with high honors for his services to the nation
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1820· 1 entry
And the two shared botanical specimens for study
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1818· 1 entry
The young and brilliant Peruvian student of the Royal Mining School of Paris, Mariano Eduardo de Rivero y Ustáriz
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1815· 1 entry
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1815).
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1814· 1 entry
Humboldt accompanied the allied sovereigns to London
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1811· 1 entry
And again in 1818, projects of Asiatic exploration were proposed to Humboldt, first by Tsar Nicholas I's Russian government, and afterwards by the Prussian government; but on each occasion, untoward circumstances interpo
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1807· 1 entry
“In der grossen Verkettung von Ursachen und Wirkungen darf kein Stoff, keine Thätigkeit isolirt betrachtet werden." - Ideen zu einer Geographie der Pflanzen nebst einem Naturgemälde der Tropenländer, mit A. Bonpland, Cotta, Tübingen 1807, S. 39, Internet Archive”
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1804· 2 entries
In Paris and spent time with him in Rome
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From the east coast port of Veracruz, he took a similar set of measures, which resulted in a chart in the Political Essay, the physical plan of Mexico with the dangers of the road from Acapulco to Mexico City, and from M
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1803· 1 entry
“Alles ist Wechselwirkung." - Tagebücher der Amerikanische Reise, 1. August 1803, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin (direkt über horizontaler Linie)”
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1802· 2 entries
Met the Ecuadorian aristocrat Don Carlos Montúfar, who travelled with Humboldt to Europe and lived with him
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Climbing the highest mountain in Ecuador to a height of 19,286 feet, at the time a world record altitude for a Westerner
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1800· 1 entry
And again in 1831, he described scientifically, on the basis of observations generated during his travels, local impacts of development causing human-induced climate change
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1769· 1 entry
Born 1769-09-14.
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