Alexander (Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander Freiherr) von Humboldt

Paris, Paris-4E-Arrondissement, Île-de-France, France

natural history, zoology, meteorology

(1769-1859)
Plewe, Ernst, Humboldt , Alexander in: Neue Deutsche Biographie 10 (1974), S. 33-43 [Onlinefassung]
https://www.hu-berlin.de/de/ueberblick/geschichte/abriss/alex_html
http://ihm.nlm.nih.gov/luna/servlet/view/search/what/Portraits/?q=Humboldt
Humboldt was an explorer and naturalist known for his researches in South America, the Caribbean and Russia. Called the founder of modern geography.

Carl Ludwig Willdenow	research assistant		HU Berlin (Plant Biology Tree)
Johann Friedrich Blumenbach	research assistant	1789-1790	Universität Göttingen (Chemistry Tree)
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg	research assistant	1789-1790	Universität Göttingen
Franz Xaver von Zach	research assistant	1792	Gotha Observatory (Astronomy Tree)
Abraham Gottlob Werner	grad student	1791-1792	Bergakademie Freiberg (Chemistry Tree)
Markus Herz	research scientist	1787	Salon von Henriette Herz (Neurotree)

Johann Wilhelm Ritter	research assistant	1797-1798	University of Jena (Physics Tree)
Arnold Escher von der Linth	research assistant	1827-1829	Universität Berlin (Geotree)
Gotthold Eisenstein	grad student	1844-	Universität Berlin (MathTree)
Franz von Baader	grad student	1787-1792	Bergakademie Freiberg (Physics Tree)
Paul Erman	grad student	1808	Universität Berlin
Benjamin Apthorp Gould	post-doc	1848-	University of Paris (Astronomy Tree)
William North Rice	post-doc	1867-1868	Universität Berlin (Evolution Tree)
Heinrich von Dechen	research scientist	1845-	Eschweiler Bergwerksverein (Geotree)
Carl Ritter	research scientist	1820-1828	Free University of Berlin (Neurotree)
Louis Agassiz	research scientist	1830-1833	Paris (Marine Ecology Tree)

collaborator

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