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.

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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