I am just learning about Alexander Von Humboldt. Wow! I am fascinated and can't understand how I have come this far in life without having heard of him before. Now I am obsessed!
If we all would go take a walk in Nature, whether it be to the sea, a verdant plane, or a mountain, then sit and note something, learn something...that would be a good thing. To Alexander von Humboldt, who did all of these things, and more...we salute you. Dr. George M. Whitehead who was a Zoology Major when he was 18, and is now a Doctor, at age 74, and still learning from Nature.Thank you, Alexander von Humboldt.
Thomas Jefferson (third president and founding father of America) once said that Humboldt was the greatest scientist he had the honor to meet. Even Charles Darwin’s work is based on his. In Germany everyone remembers him.
I'm studying educational technology and learning theories and I thought this documentary is about Wilhelm von Humboldt but, and with no regret, I watched the whole video. It was pleasurable and inspiring experience to learn about Alexander von Humboldt.
@@antares3796 and in north Américan spanish speaking countries too, here in México is like a hero, he spent a year here and made a lot of contributions to science
And he wanted to visit India, the Himalayas and so on ... but the englisch government gave him no permission, because they feared his influence on the people to free themthelves of the english pressure. You can compare it to the situation in south america , that was under the pressure of spain. Would be very interesting to know, what he would have found out about the indian culture, nature , population . It was his great dream to go to asia ...
Alexander von Humbodt left an indelible mark on our Latin American countries. I hope to get the book "Alexander von Humboldt en Colombia" written by Enrique Pérez Arbeláez and sponsored by the Colombian Petroleum Company in 1959.
@@giuliafranz9329 hello I have a fist edition of Alexander humboldts Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Years 1799-1804.message me if you are interested
I am completely baffled how this guy could travel (basically on his own except for a friend), in wild untamed country, and sketch all these things, take samples, etc. etc....how? where did he get paper from? his pencils? how did he carry all this stuff? how did he carry his money or did he bring American Express checks? To travel all the miles he did is such frontier country? Such a trip today would be onerous not to visualize doing it in 1799?
Von Humboldt's name, was worthy of adorning Chicago's most centrally located park, where South side meets North, between Lakefront & suburbs. To teach and remind each generation, that every organism plays its role, adding to the whole. Of a long list of classified species, we today call our ancient locally evolved eco system. As a youth, first learning of his claim to fame. I immediately challenged his assumption. By asking...if man completely eradicated his native Mosquito. What else would be lost to consequences, that man finds beautiful? Illinois native Water Pitcher plant could not survive without Mosquito larvae breaking down captured bugs. I could then imagine Humboldt saying...Scott, isn't the Pitcher plant is one of your favorite species?!? Today when I volunteer as Treekeeper for Earth day 2018 at Chicago's Humboldt park, rest of inhabitants from our cities native Elm-Ash-Cottonwood ecosystem will be there as well. Enjoy!
He was such a great explorer. At least in Germany we still remember him. He was the inspiration for Charles Darwin and Thomas Jefferson said that he was the most important scientist he ever meet.
Try Alfred Russel Wallace ( British) who came up with the evolutionary theory before Darwin by real field work,sadly neglected by history his work in South America and Malaysia were the breakthrough ,Wallace agreed to let Darwin take all the credit and was sadly forgotten by British historians,however there is a statue in the British museum
Neither did we. I had to learn about him from a Bill Bryson book (which was delightful). School is not a place to learn anything, except how to obey. Learning takes place outside school, on your own initiative.
It is my understanding that he was much more famous in the U.S. during his lifetime than he is now. Maybe the conflicts of the twentieth century predisposed each side to focus on its own science heroes. Humboldt in Germany and Austria, and Darwin in the UK and U.S.
@@davidjanson9900 Darwin came up with the idea before Wallace....he was working for years on his theory of natural selection....and his ideas were also based on "field work."
Humboldt was actually very likely a homosexual. Also, while Darwin did overtake Humboldt, he was far from ruined. He had another great expedition that took him to Russia, and then published his greatest work, the five volumes of "Cosmos" (the final one published posthumously), which were incredibly successful.
Because of one man with the initials A.H. many libraries all over the world enthusiastically collected German books. And because of another man with the same initials these German books were furiously carried out of the libraries and burnt.
Alexander Humboldt was a Theist, while not a religious man, he did believe that the world had been created and many other things dealing with man and God. and the theory that we humans came from apes was already around in his times and Alexander thought that was one of the greatest evils of his time, that theory. So he wouldn't have been very impressed by Darwin's book.
@@jhonnycaicedo5647 We can only speculate. But for a man with such an openness to learn from observation, who is not reluctant to break with convention, I think that it is possible that he might have been impressed indeed.
@@jhonnycaicedo5647 How does this follow in any way? it doesn't. He didn't buy it because there was no reason to at his time. Things are always not credible until they are, and it took until Darwin to bring that paradigm shift.
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You're kidding right? Darwin absolutely revolutionized science to a much greater extent than most. Biology, Historical Geology, Paleontology, Ecology, Genetics, Astrobiology would not if gotten off the ground without Darwin's discoveries.
