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Alexander von Humboldt

1769 - 1859

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Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt (14 September 1769 – 6 May 1859) was a German polymath, geographer, naturalist, explorer, and proponent of Romantic philosophy and science. He was the younger brother of the Prussian minister, philosopher, and linguist Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767–1835). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexander von Humboldt has received more than 2,862,350 page views. His biography is available in 97 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 94 in 2019). Alexander von Humboldt is the 3rd most popular geographer, the 42nd most popular biography from Germany (up from 56th in 2019) and the most popular German Geographer.

Alexander von Humboldt is most famous for his contributions to the sciences of geography, geology, and botany.

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Among GEOGRAPHERS

Among geographers, Alexander von Humboldt ranks 3 out of 67. Before him are Eratosthenes and Strabo. After him are Gerardus Mercator, Muhammad al-Idrisi, Piri Reis, Pausanias, Carl Ritter, George Everest, Abraham Ortelius, Martin Waldseemüller, and Ferdinand von Richthofen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1769, Alexander von Humboldt ranks 2. Before him is Napoleon. After him are Muhammad Ali of Egypt, Georges Cuvier, Michel Ney, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, Jean Lannes, Jean-de-Dieu Soult, Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Ivan Krylov, André-Jacques Garnerin, and William Smith. Among people deceased in 1859, Alexander von Humboldt ranks 1. After him are Klemens von Metternich, Alexis de Tocqueville, Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet, Oscar I of Sweden, Carl Ritter, Wilhelm Grimm, John Vianney, Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies, Josip Jelačić, Washington Irving, and Louis Spohr.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Alexander von Humboldt ranks 42 out of 6,142. Before him are Erwin Rommel (1891), Hermann Göring (1893), Pope Benedict XVI (1927), Robert Koch (1843), Josef Mengele (1911), and Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor (912). After him are Adolf Eichmann (1906), Felix Mendelssohn (1809), Bernhard Riemann (1826), Marlene Dietrich (1901), Hannah Arendt (1906), and Bertolt Brecht (1898).

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Among GEOGRAPHERS In Germany

Among geographers born in Germany, Alexander von Humboldt ranks 1. After him are Carl Ritter (1779), Martin Waldseemüller (1470), Sebastian Münster (1488), Albrecht Penck (1858), Alfred Hettner (1859), Johann Georg Gmelin (1709), Hans Meyer (1858), Adolf Stieler (1775), and Anton Friedrich Büsching (1724).

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