Alexander Humboldt, Von
| Baron Alexander Humboldt, Von | |||||||
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| Born | 1769 | ||||||
| Died | 1859 | ||||||
| Residence | Berlin | ||||||
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academic explorer aristocracy | ||||||
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Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt (About this sound listen (help·info); September 14, 1769 – May 6, 1859) was a Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer, and 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