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Texts by or on Alexander von Humboldt Biographies | Contemporaries | Texts by Humboldt | Essays Alexander von Humboldt - Networks of knowledge Informative material from the exhibitions in Berlin (6th of June until 15th of August 1999) and Bonn (15th of September 1999 until 9th of January 2000).
Chronological overview with the many detailed information about his life. Edited by Kurt-R. Biermann, Ilse Jahn and Fritz G. Lange and since December 2001 for the first time and in a revised version put in the net. The Chronology is divided into decades with the following main themes:
Contemporaries A brief biography on the famous German scientist by the statistics department at St. Olaf College, Minnesota. Biography of the German geographer Carl Ritter, who is commonly associated with Alexander von Humboldt as one of the founders of modern geography. Online-Bibliography, edited by Ulrike Leitner (BBAW), with an alphabetical and chronological order of Humboldt's publications, including the posibility to list his works going by key words and text groups. Digital edition of the original Humboldt texts. This online version includes academic annotations and presents its text in the three languages German, English and French. It combines the digitalized text with reproductions of the original text, as much on the textual as on the visual level and establishes many connections between this and othes contemporary publications. Alexander von Humboldt left a detailed description of his visits to the Spanish Empire around 1800. The laws of Spain prevented entry to all non-Spanish Europeans to the Spanish Empire. Humboldt's comments as an outsider are then especially valuable. by the Alexander-von-Humboldt-Research Office of the Berlin-Brandenburgian Academy of Science
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. 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. (a) on his journeys A reproduction of the Chimborazo, part of the exhibition by the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University, organized by William S. Reese and George Miles. (b) on his scientific discoveries
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).
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