Humboldt's twenty-first-century currency: recent upwellings, commemorations, and critical commentaries.(Alexander von Humboldt)

From: The Geographical Review | Date: July 1, 2006| Author: Mathewson, Kent | Copyright information

Over the past two centuries Alexander von Humboldt and his multiple legacies have inspired episodic recognitions and assessments of varying intensities and durations. Word of his ascent of Mount Chimborazo in 1802 vaulted him into the consciousness of the greater European world, and he maintained a celebrity status therein for the next six decades. The twin peaks of this long first phase of accumulated acclaim were 1859, the year of his death, and 1869, the centennial of his birth. ...

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