Alexander von Humboldt

Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt, also , ; }} (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, 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.

Between 1799 and 1804, Humboldt travelled extensively in the Americas, exploring and describing them for the first time from a non-Spanish European scientific point of view. His description of the journey was written up and published in several volumes over 21 years.

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.

Humboldt is seen as "the father of ecology" and "the father of environmentalism". Provided by Wikipedia

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by Humboldt, Alexander von
Published 1836
Libreria de Lecointe

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by Humboldt, Alexander von
Published 1836
Libreria de Lecointe

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by Humboldt, Alexander von
Published 1831
Gide Fils
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by Humboldt, Alexander von
Published 1822
Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown

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by Humboldt, Alexander von
Published 1811
Chez F. Schoell

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by Humboldt, Alexander von
Published 1827
En Casa de J. Renouard

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by Humboldt, Alexander von
Published 1826
Gide

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by Humboldt, Alexander von
Published 1840
Lecointe y Lasserre

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by Alamán, Lucas
Published 1826
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