Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859)
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Baron Alexander von Humboldt was born in Berlin, Germany. During his early school years, he studied such subjects as geology, biology, metallurgy, and mining, and his main interest was in nature and other lands. In 1796 Humboldt traveled to the German Alps, where he measured the atmospheric visa mer pressure, humidity, and oxygen content of the air. Shortly after, in 1799, he was granted permission by the Spanish king to explore Spain's mysterious holdings in the Americas. For the next five years, he and his companion, Aime Bonplaud, explored the region that is now Venezuela, Cuba, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, and Mexico. While in the Andes, he fell prey to mountain sickness, which led him to become the first person to explain that the sickness was caused by a lack of oxygen. During these travels, he and Bonplaud collected 60,000 plant specimens; mapped the area; and studied its climates, bodies of water, wildlife, and minerals. The findings of this exhaustive adventure were published in a 23-volume series, Voyage de Humboldt et Bonplaud (1805--34). In 1829, at the invitation of the Russian government, Humboldt made an expedition to Russia and Siberia, categorizing, observing, and recording as he went. One of the results of this expedition was a 5-volume work, Kosmos (1845-62), in which he tried to combine the vague ideals of the eighteenth century with the exact scientific requirements of his own. Considered one of the founders of modern geography, Humboldt showed geographers that there was more to the study of geography than the shape of Earth and its regions. He gave them a system of geographic inquiry, he was the first to draw an isothermal map, studied tropical storms and volcanoes, and pioneered the field of terrestrial magnetism. Equally important, he was responsible for one of the first examples of international scientific cooperation, which led to the formation of a system of meteorological stations throughout Russia and Great Britain. During one of his many expeditions, he measured the temperature of the current with which his ship sailed from Lima, Peru, to Acapulco, Mexico. Later this current was named the Humboldt Current in his honor. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
Foto taget av: From "Little Journeys To the Homes of the Great Scientists," Elbert Hubbard, 1916 (Project Gutenberg)
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Verk av Alexander von Humboldt
Personal Narrative of a Journey to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent [Abridged - Penguin Classics] (1995) 141 exemplar
Personal narrative of travels to the equinoctial regions of America, during the years 1799-1804 (1970) 64 exemplar
Del Orinoco al Amazonas : viajes a las regiones equinocciales del Nuevo Continente (1975) 29 exemplar
Cosmos: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe; Volume 2 (Foundations of Natural History) (1997) 29 exemplar
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 - Volume 1 (2007) 21 exemplar
Views of the Cordilleras and Monuments of the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas: A Critical Edition (2013) 20 exemplar
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 - Volume 2 (2007) 17 exemplar
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, Vol. III (in 3 volumes): During the Years… (2009) 13 exemplar
Alexander von Humboldt: The Complete Drawings from the American Travel Journals (2018) — Författare — 10 exemplar
Studienausgabe: Studienausgabe, 7 Bde. in Tl.-Bdn., Bd.2, Die Forschungsreise in den Tropen Amerikas, in 3 Tl.-Bdn.: Bd… (1997) 8 exemplar
Südamerikanische Reise ; mit 33 Ansichten nach Humboldts originalen Landschaftszeichnungen und Kartenbildern und 6… (1990) 6 exemplar
Studienausgabe, 7 Bde. in Tl.-Bdn., Bd.7, Kosmos, 2 Tl.-Bde.: Bd. 7 in 2 Teilbänden. Teilband 1 (1993) 5 exemplar
Letters Of Alexander Von Humboldt Written Between The Years 1827 And 1858 To Varnhagen Von Ense - Together With… (2008) 3 exemplar
Darmstädter Ausgabe. Band IV, Mexico-Werk : Politische Ideen Zu Mexico : Mexicanische Landeskunde (2014) 2 exemplar
Alejandro de Humboldt en Colombia 2 exemplar
Studienausgabe, 7 Bde. in Tl.-Bdn., Bd.7, Kosmos, 2 Tl.-Bde.: Bd. 7 in 2 Teilbänden. Teilband 2 2 exemplar
Die Entdeckung der Neuen Welt : mit dem geographischen und physischen Atlas der Äquinoktial-Gegenden des neuen… (2009) 2 exemplar
Viaggio alle regioni equinoziali del nuovo continente fatto nel 1799, 1800, 1801, 1802, 1803 e 1804: relazione storica (1986) 2 exemplar
Studienausgabe, 7 Bde. in Tl.-Bdn., Bd.7, Kosmos, 2 Tl.-Bde.: Bd. 7 in 2 Teilbänden. Tafeln (1993) 2 exemplar
Die Frankfurter Schule und die Folgen Referate eines Symposiums der Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung vom 10.-15.… (1986) 2 exemplar
Studienausgabe, 7 Bde. in Tl.-Bdn., Bd.1, Schriften zur Geographie der Pflanzen: Bd. 1 (1989) 2 exemplar
Ideas para una geografia de las plantas. Más Un cuadro de la naturaleza de los países tropicales (Spanish Edition) (1986) 2 exemplar
Briefe Aus Amerika 1799-1804 (Beitraege zur Alexander von Humboldt Forschung) (German Edition) 1 exemplar
Humboldt's Travels 1 exemplar
Alexander von Humboldt in Bern 1 exemplar
Abenteurer und Entdecker 1 exemplar
Pinturas da Natureza Uma Antologia 1 exemplar
Researches, Concerning the Institutions and Monuments of the Ancient Inhabitants of America, with Descriptions and… (2011) 1 exemplar
A Metabiography by Nicolaas A. Rupke 1 exemplar
Viaje a las Regiones Equinocciales del Nuevo Continente. Tomo V : libro 9, índices alfabéticos y de lugares (1991) 1 exemplar
Asie Centrale, Vol. 1: Recherches sur les Chaines de Montagnes Et la Climatologie Comparée (Classic Reprint) (2017) 1 exemplar
Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) 1 exemplar
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Alexander-von-Humboldt-Stiftung 1 exemplar
Kleinere Schriften 1 exemplar
Второе открытие Америки 1 exemplar
Versuche über die chemische Zerlegung des Luftkreises : und über einige andere Gegenstände der Naturlehre (1976) 1 exemplar
Breviario-del-nuevo-mundo. 1 exemplar
Briefe aus Amerika 1799-1804 1 exemplar
Cosmos, Vol. 1: Ensayo de una Descripcion Fisica del Mundo (Classic Reprint) (Spanish Edition) 1 exemplar
Auf Steppen und Strömen Südamerikas 1 exemplar
Humboldtiana 1 exemplar
Lõuna-Ameerika rohtlates ja jõgedel 1 exemplar
Viaje a las Regiones Equinocciales del Nuevo Continente Hecho en ..., Volume 1 (Spanish Edition) (2009) 1 exemplar
A Physical Description of the Heavens 1 exemplar
Ensayo Político Sobre el Reino de la Nueva-España, Vol. 3 (Classic Reprint) (Spanish Edition) (2018) 1 exemplar
Kosmos. Band 4 1 exemplar
Kosmos. Band 2 1 exemplar
Kosmos. Band 1 1 exemplar
Tableaux de la nature, ou Considérations sur les déserts, sur la physionomie des végétaux,… 1 exemplar
Auf dem Orinoko — Författare — 1 exemplar
Versuche Über die Gereizte Muskel-und Nervenfaser, Vol. 2: Nebst Vermuthungen Über den Chemischen Process des Lebens… (2017) 1 exemplar
Wilhelm Von Humboldt's, Vol. 2: Gesammelte Werke (Classic Reprint) (German Edition) (2017) 1 exemplar
Cristóbal Colón y el descubrimiento de América (Tomo 2): historia de la geografía del nuevo continente y de los… (2012) 1 exemplar
Studienausgabe, 7 Bde. in Tl.-Bdn., Bd.6, Schriften zur Physikalischen Geographie: Bd. 6 (1989) 1 exemplar
De distributione geographica plantarum secundum coeli temperiem et altitudinem montium, prolegomena 1 exemplar
Kosmos und Humanität 1 exemplar
Alexander von Humboldt über die Sklaverei in den USA : eine Dokumentation mit einer Einführung und… 1 exemplar
Aspects Of Nature V2: In Different Lands And Different Climates, With Scientific Elucidations (1849) (2008) 1 exemplar
Aspects Of Nature V1: In Different Lands And Different Climates, With Scientific Elucidations (1849) (2008) 1 exemplar
Beiderseits des Amazonas. Reisen deutscher Forscher des 19. Jahrhunderts durch Südamerika (1975) 1 exemplar
Auf Steppen und Strömen Südamerikas, Reise in die Äqinokialgengenden des Neuen Kontinents (1968) 1 exemplar
Mélanges de géologie et de physique générale 1 exemplar
Ensayo político de la Nueva España (4 Tomos) 1 exemplar
Alexander von Humboldt: Die Südamerika-Reise (Einzige von A. v. Humboldt autorisierte deutsche Ausgabe):… (2015) 1 exemplar
Das Buch der Begegnungen: Menschen – Kulturen – Geschichten aus den Amerikanischen Reisetagebüchern von Alexander… (2018) 1 exemplar
Ideen zu einer Geographie der Pflanzen 1 exemplar
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Allmänna fakta
- Namn enligt folkbokföringen
- Humboldt, Friedrich Heinrich Alexander, Baron von
- Andra namn
- HUMBOLDT, Friedrich Heinrich Alexander, Baron von VON
HUMBOLDT, Alexander VON - Födelsedag
- 1769-09-14
- Avled
- 1859-05-06
- Begravningsplats
- Berlin, Germany
- Kön
- male
- Nationalitet
- Alemanya
- Födelseort
- Berlin, Margraviate of Brandenburg
- Dödsort
- Berlin, Prussia
- Bostadsorter
- Berlin, Prussia, German Empire
Paris, France - Utbildning
- University of Göttingen, Germany
Freiberg School of Mines (1792) - Yrken
- naturalist
explorer
geographer - Relationer
- Humboldt, Wilhelm von (brother)
Humboldt, Caroline von (sister-in-law)
Herz, Henriette (friend) - Priser och utmärkelser
- Humboldt University of Berlin
American Philosophical Society (1804)
Prussian Academy of Sciences (1805)
American Antiquarian Society (1816)
Linnean Society of London (1818)
New York Historical Society (1820) (visa alla 20)
American Academy of Arts and Sciences (Foreign Honorary Member, 1822)
American Ethnological Society (1843)
American Geographical and Statistical Society (1856)
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (foreign member, 1810)
Royal Society (foreign member)
Privy Counsellor (1829)
Chancellor of the Order of Merit (1842)
Pour le Mérite (1842)
Order of the Red Eagle (1844)
Order of the Black Eagle (1847)
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus (1850)
Copley Medal (1852)
Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art (1853)
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Guadalupe (1863)
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