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Alexander von Humboldt
Alternative spellings: Alexander v. Humboldt Aleksandr Gumbolʹdt Aleksandr fon Gumbolʹdt Alexander de Humboldt Friedrich A. von Humboldt Alexandre von Humboldt Aleksander von Humboldt Alejandro Humboldt Friedrich H. von Humboldt Friedrich Heinrich von Humboldt A. v. Humboldt Aleksandras Humboldtas Friedrich W. von Humboldt Friedrich Alexander von Humboldt F. A. von Humboldt Alexandrus de Humboldt Fridericus Alexandrus ab Humboldt Fréderic-Alexandre de Humboldt Arekusandā fon Funboruto Alexander Humboldt Friedrich Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt Alexandre de Humboldt Alejandro de Humboldt Alejandro von Humboldt Alessandro di Humboldt Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt Alexander von Humboldt Александр фон Гумбольдт
B:14. September 1769Berlin D: 6. Mai 1859 Death Place:
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Profession
Geograf
Naturwissenschaftler
Forschungsreisender
Gelehrter
Arzt
Schriftsteller
Geheimer Rat
Affiliations
Kaiserlich Leopoldinisch-Carolinische Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher
Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt (14 September 1769 – 6 May 1859) 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. Humboldt's advocacy of long-term systematic geophysical measurement laid the foundation for modern geomagnetic and meteorological monitoring. Between 1799 and 1804, Humboldt travelled extensively in the Americas, exploring and describing them for the first time from a modern Western scientific point of view. His description of the journey was written up and published in several volumes over 21 years. Humboldt was one of the first people to propose that the lands bordering the Atlantic Ocean were once joined (South America and Africa in particular). Humboldt resurrected the use of the word cosmos from the ancient Greek and assigned it to his multivolume treatise, Kosmos, in which he sought to unify diverse branches of scientific knowledge and culture. This important work also motivated a holistic perception of the universe as one interacting entity, which introduced concepts of ecology leading to ideas of environmentalism. In 1800, 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. (Source: DBPedia)
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1874
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1809
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Freiberger Forschungshefte / D (1)
Publicaciones del Archivo Nacional de Cuba (1)
Archivo de la economia nacional : publ. del Banco de la Republica (1)
Karlsruher akademische Reden (1)
Wissenschaftliche Abhandlungen der Geographischen Gesellschaft der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik (1)