Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859), in a portrait painted by Julius Shrader the year he died. Humboldt regarded Earth as one great living organism in which everything was connected, a radically new approach during his lifetime in the 19th century and makes him more relevant than ever for us now in the 21st century. Image: Wikimedia
Alexander von Humboldt's contemporaries considered him the most famous man in the world after Napoleon. And Thomas Jefferson called him “one of the greatest ornaments of the age.”
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