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Alexander von Humboldt was born in Berlin in Prussia on 14 September 1769. [19] He was baptized as a baby in the Lutheran faith, with the Duke of Brunswick serving as godfather. [20] His father, Alexander Georg von Humboldt (1720-1779), belonged to a prominent German noble family from Pomerania.
The Alexander von Humboldt statue is a monumental statue in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Located in Humboldt Park, a major urban park in the Humboldt Park neighborhood, the statue depicts Alexander von Humboldt, a Prussian polymath and the park's namesake. The statue was dedicated in 1892.
Eureka is dedicated to the German naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859). [1] [2] Though Eureka is generally considered a literary work, some of Poe's ideas anticipate 20th-century scientific discoveries and theories. [3]
The Alexander von Humboldt statue in Tiergarten, Berlin, Germany, was unveiled on 31 August 1999. [1] It is a larger-than-life bronze statue of the scientist, explorer, and naturalist Alexander von Humboldt, who stands with his right hand resting on a globe, on top of South America. [2]
Humboldtian science refers to a movement in science in the 19th century closely connected to the work and writings of German scientist, naturalist, and explorer Alexander von Humboldt. It maintained a certain ethics of precision and observation, which combined scientific field work with the sensitivity and aesthetic ideals of the age of ...
The Alexander von Humboldt Memorial to the right of the Humboldt University main building on Unter den Linden avenue in Berlin's Mitte district commemorates the Prussian polymath and natural scientist Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859).
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World is a nonfiction book released in 2015, by the historian Andrea Wulf about the Prussian naturalist, explorer and geographer Alexander von Humboldt. The book follows Humboldt from his early childhood and travels through Europe as a young man to his journey through Latin America and his ...
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