Humboldt, Friedrich Heinrich Alexander Baron ♂
Education
LL.D. 26.3.1853. (Proposed by Sir David Brewster).
Birth/childhood
Born 14.9.1769 at Berlin [Germany] son of Alexander Georg von Humboldt, chamberlain to the King of Prussia and Maria Elisabeth Colomb Holwede.
Career
Studied Frankfort on the Oder, Berlin, Gottingen and Freiburg.
Worked in mining before devoting himself to natural history and exploration. [Miner]
His Cosmos (1845-1858) is one of the greatest scientific works ever published. His Voyages… appeared in 30 vols (1807-1817).
Publications
Cosmos: a sketch of a physical description of the universe, by Alexander von Humboldt....translated from the German by E.C. Otté. Vol. 1. (London: Henry G. Bohn, 1849)
Death
Died 6.5.1859.
Sources
- Dictionary of Scientific Biography
- Alexander von Humboldt in Wikipedia.