Humboldt is seen as "the father of ecology" and "the father of environmentalism". In 1800, and again in 1831, he described scientifically, on the basis of observations generated during his travels, local impacts of development causing human-induced climate change. This important work also motivated a holistic perception of the universe as one interacting entity, which introduced concepts of ecology leading to ideas of environmentalism. Humboldt resurrected the use of the word cosmos from the ancient Greek and assigned it to his multivolume treatise, Kosmos, in which he sought to unify diverse branches of scientific knowledge and culture. Humboldt was one of the first people to propose that the lands bordering the Atlantic Ocean were once joined (South America and Africa in particular). His description of the journey was written up and published in several volumes over 21 years. īetween 17, Humboldt travelled extensively in the Americas, exploring and describing them for the first time from a modern Western scientific point of view. Humboldt's advocacy of long-term systematic geophysical measurement laid the foundation for modern geomagnetic and meteorological monitoring. Humboldt's quantitative work on botanical geography laid the foundation for the field of biogeography.
He was the younger brother of the Prussian minister, philosopher, and linguist Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767–1835). Markus Herz, Carl Ludwig Willdenow, Abraham Gottlob Wernerĭarwin, Wallace, Thoreau, Whitman, Emerson, Muir, Irving, Ida Laura Pfeiffer, Frederic Edwin Church, Ernst Haeckel, George Perkins Marshįriedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt (14 September 1769 – ) was a German polymath, geographer, naturalist, explorer, and proponent of Romantic philosophy and science. University of Frankfurt (Oder) (no degree)īiogeography, Kosmos (1845–1862), Humboldt Current, magnetic storm, Humboldtian science, Berlin Romanticism Freiberg School of Mines ( diploma, 1792)
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