by Alexander von Humboldt · Antigonos Verlag · tapa dura · ISBN 9783563136515
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«Briefe an Karl August Varnhagen von Ense (1827-1858)» is the correspondence of Alexander von Humboldt, from Antigonos Verlag in hardback (416 pages, in German).
Collection of the correspondence that Alexander von Humboldt maintained with Karl August Varnhagen von Ense between 1827 and 1858. The letters show the intellectual life of the era and Humboldt's personal and professional reflections in his final decades.
This edition is a complete reproduction of the original 1860 edition.
For readers interested in European intellectual history and in the figure of Alexander von Humboldt.
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Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt 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.
