Friedrich Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt

Standard Name: Humboldt, Friedrich Heinrich Alexander von
Used Form: Alexander von Humboldt

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Friends, Associates Sydney Owenson Lady Morgan
On her first visit to Paris, she met Germaine de Staël , and formed lasting friendships with the marquise de Villette (Voltaire 's adopted daughter) and with Elizabeth Patterson (an American heiress, the abandoned...
Friends, Associates Helen Maria Williams
On her return to Paris after Robespierre's death, HMW and Stone lived in a house (where she held her salon) on the Quai Malaquais. After peace was announced between England and France in 1801...
Friends, Associates Mary Somerville
In Paris the Somervilles met Pierre Simon Laplace , Siméon Poisson , Louis Poinsot , Émile Mathieu , François Arago , Jean-Baptiste Biot , Alexis Bouvard , Georges Cuvier , Alexander von Humboldt , and Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac .
Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science, 1815-1840. Martinus Nijhoff, 1983.
19, 21-4
Friends, Associates Ellis Cornelia Knight
ECK continued through the later part of her life to cultivate relationships with royalty and the aristocracy, of her own nation and others. Her friendships with Lord St Vincent and with Lady Aylesbury (or Ailesbury)
Literary responses Mary Somerville
Physical Geography was widely used, as a comprehensive and useful textbook, in schools and universities for some fifty years after its publication. In anticipating a regional rather than national or political approach to geography, it...
Reception Caroline Herschel
In old age CH was loaded with other honours, including honorary membership in the Royal Astronomical Society , along with Mary Somerville , in 1835. (Each woman said she felt it a particular honour to...
Textual Features Lady Caroline Lamb
Paul Douglass points out that Ada Reis is a work of scholarship as well as of imagination; before writing the text, LCL had digested many recent works of travel and exploration, including those by...
Textual Production Caroline Frances Cornwallis
In 1849 the fifteenth and sixteenth items in the series Small Books on Great Subjects were published, neither of them written by CFC . Thoughts and Opinions of a Statesman was a book recently published...
Textual Production Helen Maria Williams
HMW published a translation from the French of Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland : Researches, Concerning the Institutions and Monuments of the Ancient Inhabitants of America.
Kelly, Gary. Women, Writing, and Revolution 1790-1827. Clarendon, 1993.
208
Textual Production Helen Maria Williams
Publication was expected of the remainder of HMW 's translation of Humboldt 's Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent During the Years 1799-1804.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
88 (December 1818): 539-40

Timeline

By 1851: The early volumes of Alexander von Humboldt's...

National or international item

By 1851

The early volumes of Alexander von Humboldt 's Kosmos (published between 1845 and 1862) had sold 80,000 copies.
Merrill, Lynn L. The Romance of Victorian Natural History. Oxford University Press, 1989.
95
Science in the Nineteenth Century. Editor Taton, René, Translator Pomerans, Arnold J., Vol.
3
, Basic Books, 1965.
98, 343
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Wonder, Simon. “An adorable explorer”. Guardian Weekly, 4 Dec. 2015, pp. 36-7.
36

Texts

Humboldt, Friedrich Heinrich Alexander von, and Aimé Bonpland. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent During the Years 1799-1804. Translator Williams, Helen Maria, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1821, 7 vols.
Humboldt, Friedrich Heinrich Alexander von. Researches, Concerning the Institutions and Monuments of the Ancient Inhabitants of America. Translators Williams, Helen Maria and Aimé Bonpland, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, J. Murray and H. Colburn, 1814, 2 vols.