by Wilhelm von Humboldt · FISCHER Taschenbuch · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783596902446
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«Das große Lesebuch» is the anthology of writings by Wilhelm von Humboldt, published by Fischer Taschenbuch in paperback (427 pages, in German).
Anthology of writings by Wilhelm von Humboldt on the major themes of his thought: education, freedom, love, individuality, nation, and humanity. The volume includes Humboldt's texts on language and the diversity of human life forms, along with his role as a Prussian statesman and letters that reveal his private side.
Published in 2010 in the Fischer Klassik collection (no. 90244). Includes information on Humboldt's life and work prepared by the editors of TEXT+KRITIK and an introduction by Jürgen Trabant.
For readers interested in Wilhelm von Humboldt, the philosophy of language, and German thought of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
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.
