Alexander von Humboldt was a Prussian polymath, geographer, naturalist, explorer, and influential proponent of Romantic philosophy and science. Humboldt's quantitative work on botanical geography laid the foundation for the field of biogeography. Humboldt's advocacy of long-term systematic geophysical measurement laid the foundation for modern geomagnetic and meteorological monitoring. He lived through the eighteenth and nineteenth century.
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Physics
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University of Berlin
Harvard University
Oxford University
Freiburg school of mines
He was never married
He died at the age of 59
He lived all his life in America
He was married
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Canada
Cuba
Peru
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Nicholas Steno
Victor Goldschmidt
Louis Agassiz
Alexander Georg
Alexander Wilhelm
Alexander McQueen
Alexander Film