@article{Lindquist2004,
  author    = {Lindquist, Jason H.},
  title     = {"Under the influence of an exotic nature...national remembrances are insensibly effaced"},
  series = {HIN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; international review for Humboldtian studies},
  volume    = {V},
  journal   = {HIN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; international review for Humboldtian studies},
  number    = {9},
  publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  issn      = {2568-3543},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-35109},
  pages     = {44 -- 59},
  year      = {2004},
  abstract  = {My essay attends to a number of passages in Alexander von Humboldt's Personal Narrative in which the Prussian explorer expresses anxiety about the apparent dangers posed by the overwhelmingly productive tropical landscapes he observes. In these passages, the excesses of an "exotic nature" threaten European identity and modes of civilization—and they trouble the accuracy of Humboldt's own observational project. I also explore Humboldt's related worry that South American vegetable (and visual) overload will exert a destabilizing effect on his aesthetic sensibility, disrupting his ability to represent the "New Continent" accurately in writing. Finally, I sketch the influence of Humboldt's representations of tropical excess on nineteenth-century British cultural thought and literary practice. Studying the instabilities experienced by Personal Narrative's expatriates and colonists promises to draw out important tensions latent in Humboldt's treatment of tropical landscape and to illuminate broader epistemological and aesthetic shifts being worked out during the period.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{RebokWinkle2019,
  author    = {Rebok, Sandra and Winkle, Timothy},
  title     = {"Mason without apron"},
  series = {HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; international review for Humboldtian studies},
  volume    = {XX},
  journal   = {HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; international review for Humboldtian studies},
  number    = {38},
  publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  issn      = {2568-3543},
  doi       = {10.25932/publishup-43473},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-434735},
  pages     = {31 -- 50},
  year      = {2019},
  abstract  = {W{\"a}hrend das Fehlen einer religi{\"o}sen Haltung in Humboldts Werk, sowie die Kritik, die er diesbez{\"u}glich erhalten hat, allgemein bekannt sind, ist sein m{\"o}glicher Bezug zur Freimaurerei noch weitgehend unerforscht. Zwar erscheint Humboldt auf einigen Listen von „illustren Freimaurern", zudem tragen mehrere Logen seinen Namen, aber die Frage bleibt offen, ob Humboldt wirklich ein Freimaurer war. Wenn ja, wann und wo ist er einer Loge beigetreten? Gibt es vielleicht Kommentare von ihm zu dieser Art von Geheimb{\"u}nden? Und wer waren die bekanntesten Freimaurer in seiner Umgebung? Der Artikel beantwortet diese Punkte, aber wichtiger noch geht er der Frage nach, was eine Mitgliedschaft f{\"u}r Humboldts wissenschaftliche Arbeit bedeutet haben k{\"o}nnte, insbesondere im Hinblick auf den herausragenden Erfolg, den er in den Vereinigten Staaten zu Beginn des 19. Jahrhunderts hatte und die Gr{\"u}nde hierf{\"u}r. Was h{\"a}tten solche Verbindungen f{\"u}r ihn bedeutet und wie wurde er von den wichtigsten freimaurerischen Pers{\"o}nlichkeiten und Logen in der transatlantischen Welt wahrgenommen?},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{PuigSamperGarrido2016,
  author    = {Puig-Samper, Miguel {\´A}ngel and Garrido, Elisa},
  title     = {The presentation of the results of Alexander von Humboldt's voyage to Carlos IV},
  series = {HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; International Review for Humboldtian Studies},
  volume    = {XVII},
  journal   = {HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; International Review for Humboldtian Studies},
  number    = {32},
  publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  issn      = {1617-5239},
  doi       = {10.18443/227},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-90788},
  pages     = {52 -- 64},
  year      = {2016},
  abstract  = {Ever since our first research into Alexander von Humboldt's stay in Spain, the absence of an ensuing relationship between the wise Prussian and the Spanish Crown and Authorities had always surprised us. On starting new research, we found that indeed he sent his first work to Carlos IV from Rome accompanied by a letter of gratitude for the protection he had received during his American trip and submission to the Spanish Crown, which we now present. This first literary fruit of his voyage, which Alexander von Humboldt alluded to in the letter is the first instalment of his work Plantes {\´E}quinoxiales, Recueillies au Mexique, dans l'ile de Cuba, dans les provinces de Caracas, de Cumana etc., published in Paris in 1805.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{Doherr2005,
  author    = {Doherr, Detlev},
  title     = {The Humboldt Digital Library},
  series = {HIN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; international review for Humboldtian studies},
  volume    = {VI},
  journal   = {HIN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; international review for Humboldtian studies},
  number    = {10},
  publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  issn      = {1617-5239},
  doi       = {10.18443/58},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-35215},
  pages     = {30 -- 34},
  year      = {2005},
  abstract  = {Alexander von Humboldt's maps, graphs and illustrations contain a great deal of detail, but in the available rare editions they are hardly visible to the naked eye. In many editions they have been reduced. In a digital library, they will become accessible in their entirety, and Internet technology will reproduce them in a form that overcomes the limitations of the original printing. The user will be able to enlarge the images and see details that might have been overlooked in the past. The Humboldt's digital library will adhere to the standards for digital libraries established by the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) and the tools EPRINTS and DSPACE to provide the Web services and determine the most effective way to establish dynamic linking and knowledge based searching of information within the archive.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{Buffon2015,
  author    = {Buffon, Giuseppe},
  title     = {The Franciscans in Cathay},
  series = {HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; International Review for Humboldtian Studies},
  volume    = {XVI},
  journal   = {HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; International Review for Humboldtian Studies},
  number    = {30},
  publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  issn      = {1617-5239},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-86920},
  pages     = {13 -- 28},
  year      = {2015},
  abstract  = {The study analyzes the process that leads to the elaboration of the thesis of a continuity between the Medieval Asia mission and the New World mission. This effort, undertaken by the Catholic historiography of the mission during the XIX century, is the result of the impulse provided by Alexander von Humboldt's studies about the discovery of America (Examen critique). The data about the geography of Asia collected by the missionaries-travelers working in the territory between Karakorum and Khanbalik during the XIII e XIV century reaches Christopher Colombus with the mediation of Roger Bacon, whom Humboldt himself esteems as a true cultural mediator. The conclusion of the article tries to identify reasons and modalities of the secularization of the missionary concept, i.e. the shift from the ideal of the propagation of the Christian message to a prevailing interest for cartography and topography, transformations arranged by a late medieval historiography that introduces into martyrolagia the loca toponomastica.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{Kroeger2013,
  author    = {Kr{\"o}ger, Bj{\"o}rn},
  title     = {Remarks on a scene, depicting the primeval world},
  series = {HIN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; international review for Humboldtian studies},
  volume    = {XIV},
  journal   = {HIN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; international review for Humboldtian studies},
  number    = {27},
  publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  issn      = {1617-5239},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-69848},
  pages     = {7 -- 35},
  year      = {2013},
  abstract  = {The Prussian geologist Leopold von Buch was a lifelong friend of Alexander von Humboldt and had a significant influence on Humboldt's geological ideas. In a talk, held in Berlin in 1831, which is published here for the first time, von Buch presented the Duria Antiquior of 1830 by the English geologist Henry De La Beche. The Duria Antiquior is widely regarded as the earliest depiction of a scene of prehistoric life from deep time. The print raised new questions about the processes of geohistorical change. The talk reveals that Leopold von Buch was a true scientist of the Romantic Age. His descriptions of geohistorical organismic transformations are taken from pictorial examples of organismic transformation from the classical literature. The talk also illustrates how influential English geologists were for geo-historical reconstructions in Germany.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{Paessler2018,
  author    = {P{\"a}ßler, Ulrich},
  title     = {Plantae des {\´E}tats-Unis},
  series = {HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; International Review for Humboldtian Studies},
  volume    = {XVIII},
  journal   = {HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; International Review for Humboldtian Studies},
  number    = {35},
  publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  issn      = {1617-5239},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-419242},
  pages     = {5 -- 12},
  year      = {2018},
  abstract  = {Ein j{\"u}ngst im Nachlass Alexander von Humboldts aufgefundenes Manuskript enth{\"a}lt Aufzeichnungen {\"u}ber seinen Aufenthalt in den USA im Jahr 1804. Auf nur vier Seiten finden sich Notizen {\"u}ber Gespr{\"a}che mit Pr{\"a}sident Thomas Jefferson und dem Botaniker G. H. E. M{\"u}hlenberg, Angaben {\"u}ber Nutz- und Heilpflanzen, eine Auflistung nordamerikanischer Naturforscher sowie Informationen {\"u}ber Verbraucherpreise.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{Lundberg2015,
  author    = {Lundberg, Karin},
  title     = {Networking knowledge},
  series = {HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; International Review for Humboldtian Studies},
  volume    = {XVI},
  journal   = {HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; International Review for Humboldtian Studies},
  number    = {30},
  publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  issn      = {1617-5239},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-86968},
  pages     = {78 -- 83},
  year      = {2015},
  abstract  = {Global citizenship and diversity are well-represented concepts in today's higher education. Learning outcomes and competencies are designed to sensitize students to the many cultural backgrounds of U.S. learning institutions. Nevertheless, true globality, as represented through diverse discourses and perspectives of the world, still seems neglected in curricula and course assignments. This article explores the possibilities offered through a new shared space in education where different forms of networked knowledge and multifaceted perspectives can build a global platform of exchange in a diverse student population. The universal science concept described by Alexander von Humboldt at the beginning of the 19th Century illuminates this intertwined approach to knowledge of the world, which has the potential to positively impact contemporary curricula and course design. Von Humboldt's writings emphasize inclusion and interplay among cultures and natural phenomena. By inviting our students to be active representatives of diverse discourses, these interconnecting links will become more transparent. In turn, productive forms of knowing about the world may enrich current learning objectives and thereby reflect a true global citizenship as it evolves in a new shared space of education. Keywords: global citizenship, plurality, diverse discourses, multicultural education.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{Schlaak2013,
  author    = {Schlaak, Claudia},
  title     = {Island language policy and regional identity east of Africa},
  publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-63132},
  year      = {2013},
  abstract  = {Since 2011 the Comorian Island of Mayotte has been France's 101st d{\´e}partement, thereby becoming part of the European Union. As a result, France has consolidated and strengthened its strategic position in the Indian Ocean. With the change of political status in 2011, new developments have occurred in Mayotte. It is still unclear whether the expected economic boom, extensive social benefits or injection of EU regional funds can help to alleviate poverty and raise living standards. There is concern, however, that massive immigration to Mayotte from the surrounding territories is diminishing any progress and will continue to do so. Not only France but also the EU will have to adapt to new immigration problems due to this new external border. In this situation one thing is clear: the language contact between French and the local languages, which is the result of political developments, is leading to new dynamics. The diglossic situation east of Africa, between French as the dominant language and local languages like Shimaor{\´e} or Shibushi spoken in Mayotte will become more marked in the next few years.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{Casas2018,
  author    = {Casas, Vicente Dur{\´a}n},
  title     = {Immanuel Kant, Alexander von Humboldt and the Tequendama Fall},
  series = {HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; International Review for Humboldtian Studies},
  volume    = {XIX},
  journal   = {HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; International Review for Humboldtian Studies},
  number    = {36},
  publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  issn      = {1617-5239},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-419404},
  pages     = {35 -- 46},
  year      = {2018},
  abstract  = {Immanuel Kant mentions in his Physical Geography the waterfall of the Bogot{\´a} River in South America, known today as the Salto de Tequendama, which is located near Bogot{\´a}, the capital city of Colombia. Kant claims that this was the highest waterfall in the world, which is not true. Alexander von Humboldt could not know anything about it, but he visited the Salto in 1801, just before the publication of Kant's Physical Geography, and went to personally measure the height of the Salto. In this paper we make a comparison of both personalities who, unknowingly, were united by their interest in the Salto de Tequendama.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{Clark2001,
  author    = {Clark, Rex},
  title     = {If Humboldt had a laptop},
  series = {HIN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; international review for Humboldtian studies},
  volume    = {II},
  journal   = {HIN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; international review for Humboldtian studies},
  number    = {3},
  publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  issn      = {2568-3543},
  doi       = {10.18443/16},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-34630},
  pages     = {5 -- 20},
  year      = {2001},
  abstract  = {The difficult publication history and expensive editions of Alexander von Humboldt's volumes on the expedition to the Americas have resulted in incomplete library holdings which has limited scholarly access and sometimes caused unbalanced scholarship. A plan for a Humboldt Digital Library examines the structures and features of this representational system in print and proposes models for converting these materials to electronic form. Several issues posed by Humboldt's works include: establishing authoritative standard editions in several languages, creating high-resolution access to the many visual innovations in the works, and using software to restore the grand concept that all of the separate disciplines of study can be seen as interrelated parts of the whole. Using techniques of geographic visualization, a prototype is planned which will connect this historical body of knowledge with modern scientific databases.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{Leitner2000,
  author    = {Leitner, Ulrike},
  title     = {Humboldt's works on Mexico},
  series = {HIN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; international review for Humboldtian studies},
  volume    = {I},
  journal   = {HIN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; international review for Humboldtian studies},
  number    = {1},
  publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  issn      = {2568-3543},
  doi       = {10.18443/2},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-34355},
  pages     = {29 -- 44},
  year      = {2000},
  abstract  = {Humboldt wrote about Mexico from the perspective of a scientific explorer and naturalist. His works include his diaries, the Essai politique sur le royaume de la Nouvelle-Espagne, the Tablas g{\´e}ograficas, the Vues des Cordill{\`e}res and a geographic atlas. Concerning the scientific aspect, the lack of a section on Mexico in the Relation historique is not a real deficit, since this can be found in the Essai. But only the diaries and letters from the journey, both published by the Alexander-von-Humboldt Research Centre, Berlin, can be considered an adequate substitute. The following will show the origin of Humboldt's writings on Mexico, offer historical and bibliographical facts and present the publications "Beitr{\"a}ge zur Alexander von Humboldt-Forschung", as well as Humboldt's handwritten estate as far as they are available to us.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{AngelPuigSamper2022,
  author    = {{\´A}ngel Puig-Samper, Miguel},
  title     = {Humboldt and his geographical album of New Spain},
  series = {HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; International Review for Humboldtian Studies},
  volume    = {XXIII},
  journal   = {HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; International Review for Humboldtian Studies},
  number    = {45},
  editor    = {Ette, Ottmar and Knobloch, Eberhard},
  publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  issn      = {2568-3543},
  doi       = {10.25932/publishup-59233},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-592335},
  pages     = {29 -- 71},
  year      = {2022},
  abstract  = {During his trip to New Spain in 1803, Alexander von Humboldt visited large tracts of New Spanish territory, which includes modern Mexico and part of the United States. This trip provided the data for his geographical Atlas of the region, as well as information about the ancient Mexican cultures that he would later include in the general Atlas and in other major works, such as Vues des Cordill{\`e}res. Likewise, Humboldt's Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain displayed a comprehensive physical, natural, economic, and social description of Mexico in the colonial period, which will also be analysed. With these works, Humboldt presented a new geographical and cultural image of New Spain to the European audiences. In addition to this, his work made important contributions to cartographic knowledge.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{Roba2014,
  author    = {Roba, Bill},
  title     = {German-Iowan strategies in celebrating the centennial of Alexander von Humboldt's birth},
  series = {HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; International Review for Humboldtian Studies},
  volume    = {XV},
  journal   = {HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; International Review for Humboldtian Studies},
  number    = {29},
  publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  issn      = {1617-5239},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-84997},
  pages     = {179 -- 188},
  year      = {2014},
  abstract  = {The two largest cities of Eastern Iowa on the shore of the Mississippi River are Dubuque and Davenport. In each city, an elite group of German-Iowan leaders emerged by the late 1850s. Bill Roba describes and examines their strategies in celebrating the Centennial of Alexander von Humboldt's Birth.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{Baron2005,
  author    = {Baron, Frank},
  title     = {From Alexander von Humboldt to Frederic Edwin Church},
  series = {HIN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; international review for Humboldtian studies},
  volume    = {VI},
  journal   = {HIN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; international review for Humboldtian studies},
  number    = {10},
  publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  issn      = {1617-5239},
  doi       = {10.18443/56},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-35194},
  pages     = {7 -- 20},
  year      = {2005},
  abstract  = {Stephen Jay Gould wrote recently that "when Church began to paint his great canvases, Alexander von Humboldt may well have been the world's most famous and influential intellectual." Humboldt's influence in the case of the landscape artist Church is especially interesting. If we examine the precise relationship between the German explorer and his American admirer, we gain an insight into how Humboldt transformed Church's life and signaled a new phase in the career of the artist. Church retraced Humboldt's travels in Ecuador and in Mexico. If we compare the texts available to Church and the comparison of Church's paintings and the texts and images of Humboldt's works we can arrive at new perspectives on Humboldt's extraordinary influence on American landscape painting in the nineteenth century.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{Andress2018,
  author    = {Andress, Reinhard},
  title     = {Eduard Dorsch and his unpublished poem on the occasion of Humboldt's 100th birthday},
  series = {HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; International Review for Humboldtian Studies},
  volume    = {XIX},
  journal   = {HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; International Review for Humboldtian Studies},
  number    = {36},
  publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  issn      = {1617-5239},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-419398},
  pages     = {17 -- 34},
  year      = {2018},
  abstract  = {In 1869, the German-American medical doctor and poet, Eduard Dorsch, wrote a poem read in Detroit on the occasion of Humboldt's 100th birthday. This article publishes the poem for the first time and explores its context within the life and times of its author.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{vonMoritz2012,
  author    = {von Moritz, Brescius},
  title     = {Connecting the new world},
  volume    = {XIII},
  number    = {25},
  publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  issn      = {1617-5239},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-62386},
  pages     = {11 -- 33},
  year      = {2012},
  abstract  = {This article explores the link between the profound technological transformations of the nineteenth century and the life and work of the Prussian scholar Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859). It analyses how Humboldt sought to appropriate the revolutionary new communication and transportation technologies of the time in order to integrate the American continent into global networks of commercial, intellectual and material exchange. Recent scholarship on Humboldt's expedition to the New World (1799-1804) has claimed that his descriptions of tropical landscapes opened up South America to a range of 'transformative interventions' (Pratt) by European capitalists and investors. These studies, however, have not analysed the motivations underlying Humboldt's support for such intrusions into nature. Furthermore, they have not explored the role that such projects played in shaping Humboldt's understanding of the forces behind the progress of societies. To comprehend Humboldt's approval for human interventions in America's natural world, this study first explores the role that eighteenth-century theories of progress and the notion of geographical determinism played in shaping his conception of civilisational development. It will look at concrete examples of transformative interventions in the American hemisphere that were actively proposed by Humboldt and intended to overcome natural obstacles to human interaction. These were the use of steamships, electric telegraphy, railroads and large-scale canals that together enabled global trade and communication to occur at an unprecedented pace. All these contemporary innovations will be linked to the four motifs of nets, mobility, progress and acceleration, which were driving forces behind the 'transformation of the world' that took place in the course of the nineteenth century.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{PuigSamperRebok2010,
  author    = {Puig-Samper, Miguel {\´A}ngel and Rebok, Sandra},
  title     = {Charles Darwin and Alexander von Humboldt},
  series = {Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; international review for Humboldtian studies},
  volume    = {XI},
  journal   = {Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; international review for Humboldtian studies},
  number    = {21},
  publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  issn      = {2568-3543},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-51765},
  pages     = {55 -- 64},
  year      = {2010},
  abstract  = {Die besondere Beziehung zwischen Humboldt und Darwin, zwei der bedeutendsten Pers{\"o}nlichkeiten in der Welt der Naturwissenschaften und der Biologie des 19. Jahrhunderts, wird detailliert auf den verschiedenen Ebenen ihres Kontaktes analysiert, sowohl was das real stattgefundene pers{\"o}nliche Treffen betrifft, als auch hinsichtlich ihrer Korrespondenz und der Koinzidenz von Ideen. Dieser wechselseitige Blick zeigt uns wie sich die beiden Gelehrten gegenseitig wahrnahmen, ob sie wirklich versuchten, mit dem Paradigma ihrer bedeutenden Vorg{\"a}nger zu brechen, oder ob sie lediglich schrittweise das bereits erlangte Wissen erweiterten, bis es durch die Erstellung einer genialen Idee zu einem Bruch des bisherigen Wissens kommt. Bekannt ist die wiederholte Referenz von Darwin auf die Werke Humboldts, insbesondere auf die Tageb{\"u}cher des deutschen Naturwissenschaftler und seine Art der Beschreibung der amerikanischen Natur in ihrer ganzen Reichhaltigkeit. Weniger bekannt hingegen sind andere Verweise in seiner Autobiografie, sowie die wissenschaftliche Verwendung des Humboldtschen Werkes oder die Zitate in seiner Korrespondenz, die in diesem Beitrag aufgezeigt werden. Dar{\"u}ber hinaus wird die Verwendung der fr{\"u}hen Schriften von Darwin durch Humboldt in einigen seiner Publikationen, vor allem im Kosmos, erw{\"a}hnt.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{Seemann2020,
  author    = {Seemann, J{\"o}rn},
  title     = {Alexander von Humboldt's Search for the Casiquiare Canal},
  series = {HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; International Review for Humboldtian Studies},
  volume    = {XXI},
  journal   = {HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; International Review for Humboldtian Studies},
  number    = {41},
  editor    = {Ette, Ottmar and Knobloch, Eberhard},
  publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  issn      = {2568-3543},
  doi       = {10.18443/298},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-488363},
  pages     = {77 -- 106},
  year      = {2020},
  abstract  = {Though Humboldt's travels to the Americas have been analyzed from a wide range of viewpoints, there are specific aspects that still await further investigation. Little is written about Humboldt in the field, specifically how he moved between different locations and simultaneously measured and mapped places and phenomena. The aim of this article is to discuss the triad movement-measure-ment-map that led to the development of specific practices of knowledge building on the move. Humboldt's search for the connections between the watersheds of the Orinoco and the Amazon rivers and the resulting maps and drawings are used as an example to point out his cartographic impulse in his quest to understand and explain the physical world.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{Clark2005,
  author    = {Clark, Rex},
  title     = {Alexander von Humboldt's images of landscape and the 'Chaos of the Poets'},
  series = {HIN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; international review for Humboldtian studies},
  volume    = {VI},
  journal   = {HIN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; international review for Humboldtian studies},
  number    = {10},
  publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  issn      = {1617-5239},
  doi       = {10.18443/57},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-35209},
  pages     = {21 -- 29},
  year      = {2005},
  abstract  = {Alexander von Humboldt's descriptions of volcanic mountains in his travel journals (Reise auf dem R{\´i}o Magdalena, durch die Anden und Mexico) show both his reliance on and impatience with literary conventions and travel narratives. Using Goethe's Italienische Reise and B{\"u}rger's M{\"u}nchhausen as points of comparison for literary treatments of the volcano ascent, Humboldt's process of writing is examined. Humboldt shows the failure of the existing discourse and begins to experiment with narratives which fragment and recombine personal and historical modes of writing with, in this case, images from new technical inventions which visualize landscape according to fundamental scientific principles. While the inclusion of scientific prose is relevant, Humboldt's link to modernity is based on experimental narrative techniques which draw upon changing sets of discourse practices to describe complex realities.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{Zemtsov2005,
  author    = {Zemtsov, Alexander},
  title     = {Alexander von Humboldt's ideas on volcanism and their influence on Russian scientists},
  volume    = {VI},
  number    = {11},
  publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  issn      = {1617-5239},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-35335},
  pages     = {31 -- 37},
  year      = {2005},
  abstract  = {The article provides historical background for Alexander von Humboldt's expedition into Russia in 1829. It includes information on Humboldt's works and publications in Russia over the course of his lifetime, as well as an explanation of the Russian scientific community's response to those works. Humboldt's ideas on the existence of an active volcano in Central Asia attracted the attention of two prominent Russian geographers, P. Semenov and P. Kropotkin, whose views on the nature of volcanism were quite different. P. Semenov personally met Humboldt in Berlin. P. Kropotkin made one of the most important geological discoveries of the 19th Century: he found the fresh volcanic cones near Lake Baikal. Soon after Humboldt's Russian expedition, and partly as a result of it, an important mineral was found in the Ilmen mountains - samarskite, which later gave its name to the chemical element Samarium, developed in 1879. At the beginning of the 20th Century, the Russian scientist V. Vernadskiy pointed out that samarskite was the first uranium-rich mineral found in Russia.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{Weigl2001,
  author    = {Weigl, Engelhard},
  title     = {Alexander von Humboldt and the beginning of the environmental movement},
  series = {HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; International Review for Humboldtian Studies},
  volume    = {II},
  journal   = {HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; International Review for Humboldtian Studies},
  number    = {2},
  publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  doi       = {10.18443/15},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-34595},
  pages     = {121 -- 127},
  year      = {2001},
  abstract  = {In the middle of the 19th century the question whether expanding civilization and industrialization had an effect on climate was discussed intensely worldwide. It was feared that increasing deforestation would lead to continuous decrease in rainfall. This first scientific discussion about climate change as the result of human intervention was strongly influenced by the research Alexander von Humboldt and Jean-Baptiste Boussingault had undertaken when they investigated the falling water levels of Lake Valencia in Venezuela. This essay aims to clarify the question whether Alexander von Humboldt can be counted among the leading figures of modern environmentalism on account of this research as is being claimed by Richard H. Grove in his influential book Green Imperialism. Colonial Expansion, Tropical Island Edens and Origins of Environmentalism, 1600-1860 (1995).},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{Steinmeier2019,
  author    = {Steinmeier, Frank-Walter},
  title     = {Address on the opening of the Alexander von Humboldt Season in Quito, Ecuador, on 13 February 2019},
  series = {HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; international review for Humboldtian studies},
  volume    = {XX},
  journal   = {HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; international review for Humboldtian studies},
  number    = {39},
  publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  issn      = {2568-3543},
  doi       = {10.25932/publishup-43472},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-434723},
  pages     = {23 -- 30},
  year      = {2019},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{Andress2019,
  author    = {Andress, Reinhard},
  title     = {Addendum: a second Poem by Eduard Dorsch on the occasion of Humboldt's 100th birthday},
  series = {HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; international review for Humboldtian studies},
  volume    = {XX},
  journal   = {HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; international review for Humboldtian studies},
  number    = {39},
  publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  issn      = {2568-3543},
  doi       = {10.25932/publishup-44258},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-442585},
  pages     = {61 -- 70},
  year      = {2019},
  abstract  = {In a previously published article in HIN under the title of "Eduard Dorsch and his unpublished poem on the occasion of Humboldt's 100th birthday," I elaborated on Dorsch's poem that was read in Detroit in front of a German-American audience on Sept. 14, 1869, a day widely celebrated in the US in honor of Humboldt. Although it was not surprising that Dorsch wrote the occasional poem in the first place given his affinities with Humboldt's world of thought, a discovery of a second occasional poem upon further research in Dorsch's voluminous papers was indeed unexpected, in this case read on the same date in Monroe, Michigan. Although there are a number of similarities between the Detroit and Monroe versions, there are enough differences that warrant this addendum to my original article.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{Weigl2003,
  author    = {Weigl, Engelhard},
  title     = {Acclimatization},
  series = {HIN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; international review for Humboldtian studies},
  volume    = {IV},
  journal   = {HIN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; international review for Humboldtian studies},
  number    = {7},
  publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  issn      = {2568-3543},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-34991},
  pages     = {51 -- 62},
  year      = {2003},
  abstract  = {Together with their wives Otto and Richard Schomburgk arrived in Port Adelaide (South Australia) on August 16th 1849. The essay looks at how these two brothers, who had received their scientific training and promotion in the circle surrounding Alexander von Humboldt, reacted to the unfamiliar conditions in the young British colony. Some indication will be given as to the differences between the Schomburgk brothers treatment of the natural resources of the new colony and that of the English colonists of the time.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{Paessler2017,
  author    = {P{\"a}ßler, Ulrich},
  title     = {A Political Economy of Nature},
  series = {HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; International Review for Humboldtian Studies},
  volume    = {XVIII},
  journal   = {HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; International Review for Humboldtian Studies},
  number    = {34},
  publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  issn      = {1617-5239},
  doi       = {10.18443/252},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-395781},
  pages     = {80 -- 91},
  year      = {2017},
  abstract  = {In seinem Aufsatz „Ueber die Schwankungen der Goldproduktion mit R{\"u}cksicht auf staatswirthschaftliche Probleme" (1838) entfaltet Alexander von Humboldt auf wenigen Seiten eine Weltgeschichte des Edelmetallverkehrs von der Antike bis ins 19. Jahrhundert. Der vorliegende Artikel geht Humboldts {\"o}konomischem Denken als Teil seiner Forschungen zur Natur- und Menschheitsgeschichte nach. Er beginnt mit einem kurzen Abriss der von sp{\"a}tmerkantilistischen und fr{\"u}hliberalen Einfl{\"u}ssen gepr{\"a}gten Ausbildung Humboldts. Der Artikel diskutiert anschließend eine von Humboldt angefertigte Weltkarte sowie vier darauf bezogene Schaubilder, die historische und zeitgen{\"o}ssische statistische Daten zur graphischen Vision eines globalen Wirtschaftskreislaufs kombinieren. In einem weiteren Schritt geht der Artikel Humboldts Anwendung historischer und naturgeschichtlicher Forschungsmethoden auf dem Gebiet der politischen {\"O}konomie am Beispiel des Aufsatzes von 1838 nach. Den Schluss der Untersuchung bildet Humboldts Auseinandersetzung mit dem Edelmetall Platin, dessen begrenzte Verbreitung im Widerspruch zur Idee eines freien weltweiten Austauschs stand.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{Rupke2006,
  author    = {Rupke, Nicolaas A.},
  title     = {A metabiography of Alexander von Humboldt},
  volume    = {VII},
  number    = {12},
  publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  issn      = {1617-5239},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-35438},
  pages     = {69 -- 72},
  year      = {2006},
  abstract  = {The author's recently published monograph on Alexander von Humboldt[1] describes the multiple images of this great cultural icon. The book is a metabiographical study that shows how from the middle of the nineteenth century to the present day Humboldt has served as a nucleus of crystallisation for a variety of successive socio-political ideologies, each producing its own distinctive representation of him. The historiographical implications of this biographical diversity are profound and support current attempts to understand historical scholarship in terms of memory cultures.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{SchwarzKutzinski2021,
  author    = {Schwarz, Ingo and Kutzinski, Vera M.},
  title     = {A Letter from Alexander von Humboldt to Joseph Albert Wright - Archival Traces},
  series = {HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz},
  volume    = {XXII},
  journal   = {HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz},
  number    = {43},
  editor    = {Ette, Ottmar and Knobloch, Eberhard},
  publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  issn      = {2568-3543},
  doi       = {10.25932/publishup-53278},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-532787},
  pages     = {5 -- 12},
  year      = {2021},
  abstract  = {A few months before his death, A. v. Humboldt attended the celebration in honor of the 127th birthday of George Washington at the US legation in Berlin. A letter to the American Envoy, Joseph A. Wright (1810 - 1867), underlines Humboldt's admiration for the fi rst president of the United States. At the same time Humboldt asked the diplomat to mail a letter to the German-American Bernard Moses (1832 - 1897) in Clinton, Louisiana, who had named his son Alexander Humboldt Moses (grave on the Hebrew Rest Cemetery \#2 in New Orleans, burial plot A, 12, 5). It appears to be possible that the Moses family still owns Humboldt's letter.},
  language  = {en}
}