Baron Friedrich Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was a German scientist who made substantial contributions to geography, geology, geophysics, and meteorology. For much of his life he was associated with the Prussian court, ultimately as a...

Humboldt was born in Berlin, the son of a Prussian army officer and a Huguenot (French Protestant) mother. He experienced poor health as a child and was unimpressive as a student. He was raised under his mother's strict Calvinistic beliefs and remained...

Friedrich Wilhelm Karl Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt, one of the most famous men of his time, a polymath and Renaissance man in an age of genius, perhaps the greatest naturalist and explorer of the nineteenth century, was born in Berlin on 14...

1769-1859 German Naturalist, Traveler and Statesman Alexander von Humboldt gained fame for his adventurous scientific travels and highly accurate empirical researches throughout the Spanish colonies of South America. He wrote extensively on his...

Alexander von Humboldt. German Explorer and Scientist 1769-1859 Alexander von Humboldt was the greatest explorer-scientist of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Humboldt's contributions to science were remarkably diverse. He...

German explorer and naturalist Alexander Humboldt pursued a lifetime of exploration and discovery, and was best known for his expeditions to Central and South America. A master of observation and analysis, Humboldt was also a prolific writer and...

1769-1859 German-born and internationally renowned natural historian, traveler, and diplomat. Humboldt was a student at several German universities. From 1799-1804, he visited Latin America, studying natural history and geology (with botanist Aimé...

Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander Freiherr von Humboldt (help·info) (September 14, 1769 – May 6, 1859) was a Prussian naturalist and explorer, and the younger brother of the Prussian minister, philosopher, and linguist Wilhelm von...

Baron Alexander von Humboldt was the first naturalist to highlight the unifying aspects of the physical world. As such, the geographer and writer, who explored the New World between 1799 and 1804, can be considered the first environmentalist to promote ecological balance, a concept...

La Casa de las Ciencias de La Coruña conmemora los doscientos años de la partida del explorador hacia América El explorador alemán Alexander von Humboldt partió hace ahora 200 años desde el puerto de La Coruña hacia América para realizar su viaje...

Attacking several tons of woolly mammoth with stone-tipped spears must have taken extraordinary courage _ and ancient people left paintings to prove they did it. Now, scientists are approaching mammoths in a different way, extracting DNA from their dense coats in an effort to learn...

When he undertook a task, Charles Darwin had a rule: Keep it simple. Following that rule was the best way to share his theories, he figured. So when he wrote his most important book, he did so in an accessible style for readers who weren't...