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Alexander von Humboldt - Networks of knowledge - English
URL: http://www.hkw.de/english/culture/1999/humboldt/humboldt.html

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Alexander von Humboldt - Networks of Knowledge - English, German
URL: http://www.hkw.de/deutsch/kultur/1999/humboldt/humboldt.html
http://www.hkw.de/external/de/virtuelles_hkw/themen_raeume/humboldt.html

This Internet project was developed in connection with the exhibit of the same name which was held in the House of World Cultures (Berlin, Germany) in 1999, and offers an informative picture of the life and work of the scientist Alexander von Humboldt. His student days, his voyages and his influence on into the present are illustrated with pictures, texts and sounds.

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Humboldt & Bonpland - English
URL: http://research.amnh.org/ichthyology/neoich/collectors/humboldt.html

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Of Prussian nobility and educated in Frankfurt and Göttingen, Humboldt studied natural history and geology, travelling widely in Europe before securing a position in the Academy of Mines in Freiburg in 1792. Inheriting the family fortune after his mother's death in 1796, Humboldt moved to Paris where he met Bonpland and formulated plans to explore in Spanish America. Through Baron Forell, Ambassador of Saxony, Humboldt and Bonpland were introduced to King Carlos IV and received permission to explore Mexico and South America at their own expense.

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Picture History - Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) - English
URL: http://www.picturehistory.com/find/p/16345/mcms.html

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Alexander von Humboldt was a German naturalist. He is best known for his explorations of Central and South America. In addition to his extensive naturalist excursions, Humboldt did research in many other fields, such as forestry, astronomy, chemistry and mineralogy. He was also a diplomat to European courts. Humboldt published a great deal about his discoveries.

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Picture History - Alexander Von Humboldt (1769-1859) - English
URL: http://www.picturehistory.com/find/p/4545/mcms.html

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Von Humboldt was a German naturalist and explorer who was a major figure in the classical period of physical geography and biogeography, areas of science now included in the earth sciences and ecology. With his book Kosmos he made a valuable contribution to the popularization of science.

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Lucas Vazquez de Ayllon: Explorer - EnchantedLearning.com - English
URL: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/explorers/page/d/deayllon.shtml

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Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón (1475-1526) was a Spanish conquistador and explorer who tried to start a colony in North America in 1526. He was the first European colonizer of what is now South Carolina. His attempt to settle the coast of the Carolinas (near the mouth of the Peedee River at Winyah Bay) was unsuccessful.

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Pedro Menendez de Aviles - EnchantedLearning.com - English
URL: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/explorers/page/a/aviles.shtml

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Captain Pedro Menendez de Aviles (Feb. 15, 1519-Sept. 17, 1574) was a brutal Spanish sailor, soldier, explorer, and conquistador.

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Zebulon Montgomery Pike: American Explorer - EnchantedLearning.com - English
URL: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/explorers/page/p/pike.shtml

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Zebulon Montgomery Pike (January 5, 1779 - April 27, 1813) was an American explorer and military officer (he had served as major in the Revolutionary War). Pike tried to find the source of the Mississippi River and also explored the Rocky Mountains and southwestern North America. Pike's Peak in Colorado is named for him.

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Panfilo de Narvaez: Explorer - EnchantedLearning.com - English
URL: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/explorers/page/n/narvaez.shtml

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Panfilo de Narvaez (1470?-1528) was a Spanish explorer and soldier. He helped conquer Cuba in 1511 and led a Spanish royal expedition to North America (leaving Spain in 1527). He was born in Valladolid, Spain and died on his expedition to Florida.

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Father Eusebio Kino: Explorer - EnchantedLearning.com - English
URL: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/explorers/page/k/kino.shtml

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Father Eusebio Francisco Kino, S. J., (Aug. 10, 1645 - March 15, 1711) was a Jesuit priest, missionary, explorer, map-maker, mathematician, and astronomer. Kino was a missionary who founded many missions and explored areas in southwestern North America (Pimería Alta), including areas in what are now northern Sonora (Mexico), southern California (USA) and southern Arizona (USA).

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Alexander von Humboldt: Explorer and Naturalist - EnchantedLearning.com - English
URL: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/explorers/page/h/humboldt.shtml

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Baron Alexander von Humboldt (September 14, 1769-May 6, 1859) was a Prussian naturalist and explorer who explored much of Central and South America. Humboldt and his friend, the French medical doctor/botanist Aime-Jacques-Alexandre Goujoud Bonpland (1773-1858), explored the coast of Venezuela, the Amazon and Orinoco Rivers, and much of Peru, Ecuador, Colombia and Mexico (1799-1805).

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Alexander von Humboldt - German
URL: http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/schulen/avh/avh/avhb.html

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Der Naturforscher und Humanist Alexander von Humboldt ist eine der bedeutendsten Persönlichkeiten der Vergangenheit. Er unternahm mehrere Forschungsreisen, um die Wechselbeziehungen zwischen Lebewesen und Umwelt zu erkennen. Seine Reise nach Lateinamerika 1793-1804 trug ihm den Namen eines "zweiten, wissenschafllichen Entdeckers Amerikas" ein.

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Alexander von Humboldt - German
URL: http://www.hu-berlin.de/hub/geschichte/alex.html

Alexander v. H. unternimmt Exkursionsreisen in europäische Länder. 1790/91 studiert er an der Handelsakademie in Hamburg und der Bergakademie in Freiberg. 1792 wird Humboldt in Berlin zum Assessor im preußischen Bergdepartement ernannt. Nicht zuletzt sein allgemeines naturwissenschaftliches Interesse veranlasst A. v. Humboldt zum Austritt aus dem Staatsdienst.

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Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung - English, German
URL: http://www.humboldt-foundation.de/
http://www.avh.de/

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The Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation is a non-profit organization enabling highly qualified foreign scholars (up to the age of 40) holding a Ph.D. to carry out long-term research projects in Germany.

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