Alexander von Humboldt
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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.
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Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1709–1859)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_von_Humboldt
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2002-08-12T01:09:23Z
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2024-09-08T03:22:30Z
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