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He went to work as a private tutor at Tegel Castle, residence of the Humboldt family, in 1777. Marie-Elisabeth von Humboldt (née Colomb) engaged him to tutor her sons Wilhelm and Alexander. Kunth, committed to the ideals of the Enlightenment , instructed the Humboldts in mathematics, German, Latin, Greek, French, and history.
The family social circle included naturalist Alexander von Humboldt and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. [3] Herff completed his medical education at the University of Giessen in 1843. Upon graduation, he served a surgical internship with the army of Hesse, and learned techniques in plastic surgery and the treatment of tuberculosis. [4]
German noble family, with title Baron . Famous for two explorers. Famous for two explorers. Humboldt University named after family in Berlin , as well as a mountain in South America.
An enlargeable map of the 58 counties of the state of California. This is a list of hospitals in California (), grouped by county and sorted by hospital name. In healthcare in California, only a general acute care hospital or acute psychiatric hospital, as licensed by the California Department of Public Health, can be referred to as a "hospital."
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 Instituto de Medicina Tropical Alexander von Humboldt (IMTAvH) is a tropical medicine institute at Cayetano Heredia University in Lima, Peru.It was founded in 1968, under the direction of Prof. Hugo Lumbreras Cruz (1924 - 1985), a distinguished Peruvian doctor and parasitologist.
Ferdinand de Saussure (1857–1913), linguist and semiotician, whose mother was from a wealthy Protestant banking family, and whose father's family consisted of a long line of Huguenot academics who had fled to Geneva to escape persecution. [413] Michael Maittaire (1668–1747), linguist. [212]
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