Alexander von Humboldt Quotes
Before being free, it is necessary to be just
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Humboldt, Alexander von. Political Essay on the Island of Cuba. Translated by J. S. Thrasher, Derby & Jackson, 1856, p. 278.
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Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt 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). Humboldt's quantitative work on botanical geography laid the foundation for the field of biogeography. Humboldt's advocacy of long-term systematic geophysical measurement laid the foundation for modern geomagnetic and meteorological monitoring.