Author:Alexander von Humboldt

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Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander Freiherr von Humboldt (1769–1859)

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Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander Freiherr von Humboldt

Works

• von Humboldt, Alexander; Bonpland, Aimé (1807), Le voyage aux régions equinoxiales du Nouveau Continent.
  • Translated into English as

    von Humboldt, Alexander, Bonpland, Aimé; Williams, Helen Maria (translator) (1826) Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent During the Years 1799-1804.

Works about Humboldt

• du Bois-Reymond, Emil (1883), "Alexander von Humboldt" in Popular Science Monthly 24 (December 1883).
• “Humboldt, Friedrich Heinrich Alexander von” by Agnes Mary Clerke in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Humboldt, Friedrich Heinrich Alexander von,” Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1900.

Works by this author published before January 1, 1923 are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.