Author:Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander Freiherr von Humboldt

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

Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander Freiherr von Humboldt

Works

• Political essay on the kingdom of New Spain (1811) (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2, 3, 4)
• A Geognostical Essay on the Superposition of Rocks, in Both Hemispheres. (1823) (external scan)
• Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent… (1818) (external scans (multiple parts): Vol 1&2 1, Vol 3 2, Vol 4 3, Vol 5 4, Vol 6 5, Vol 7 6)
• The Travels and Researches of Alexander Von Humboldt: Being a Condensed Narrative (1842) (external scan)
• Kosmos: A General Survey of Physical Phenomena of the Universe (1845) (Vol 1 external scan)
• Cosmos: A Sketch of a Physical Description of the Universe (1848) (Vol 2 external scan)
• Aspects of Nature, in Different Lands and Different Climates (1849) (external scan)
• Letters of Alexander Von Humboldt to Varnhagen Von Ense (1860) (external scan)
• Le voyage aux régions equinoxiales du Nouveau Continent (1807), by Bonpland, Aimé
  • Translated into English as Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent During the Years 1799-1804 (1826), by Helen Maria Williams

Works about Humboldt

• "Alexander von Humboldt" by Emil du Bois-Reymond 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," in Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography, New York: D. Appleton and Co. (1900)
• The Life, Travels and Books of Alexander Von Humboldt by Richard Henry Stoddard (1859) (external scan)
• The travels and researches of Alexander von Humboldt by William Macgillivray (1857) (external scan)
• Alexander Von Humboldt by Hermann Klencke (1852) (external scan)