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Cosmos

Alexander von Humboldt

  • 416 pages · about 7 hours
  • First published 1845
  • 63 editions
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3 About Alexander von Humboldt

1769–1859

Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt (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).

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