Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt, 1769 – 1859. Prussian polymath, geographer, naturalist, explorer, and influential proponent of Romantic philosophy and science. Illustration by Gordon Ross, American artist and illustrator (1873-1946), from Living Biographies of Famous Men.

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