Author:Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander Freiherr von Humboldt

Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander Freiherr von Humboldt
(1769–1859)

Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander Freiherr von Humboldt

Works

• Le Voyage aux Régions Equinoxiales du Nouveau Continent... (1807), with Aimé J. A. Bonpland
• Reise in die Aequinoctial-Gegenden des Neuen Continents in den Jahren 1799, 1800, 1801, 1803 und 1804... (1815–1829)
  • Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent during the Years 1799–1804..., Vols. I & II, Vol. III, Vol. IV, Vol. V, Vol. VI, Vol. VII (1818 1st ed., 1822 3rd ed., 1826, 1829, &c.), translated by H. M. Williams
• Ansichten der Natur mit Wissenschaftlichen Erläuterungen... (1808)
  • Aspects of Nature in Different Lands and Different Climates (1849), translated by E. J. L. Sabine (external scan)
• Versuch über den Politischen Zustand des Königreichs Neu-Spanien... (1809–1814)
  • Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain (1811), translated by John Black (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2, 3, 4)
• Essai Géognostique sur le Gisement des Roches dans les Deux Hémisphères (1823) (external scan)
  • A Geognostical Essay on the Superposition of Rocks in Both Hemispheres (1823) (external scan)
• The Travels and Researches of Alexander von Humboldt, Being a Condensed Narrative of His Journeys in the Equinoctial Regions of America and in Asiatic Russia Together with Analyses of His More Important Investigations (1832, 1835, 1857, &c.), edited & translated by William Macgillivray (transcription project)
• Asie Centrale: Recherches sur les Chaines de Montagnes et la Climatologie Comparee (1843) (external scan)
• Central-Asien: Untersuchungen über die Gebirgsketten und Vergleichende Klimatologie... (1844)
• Kosmos: Entwurf einer Physischen Weltbeschreibung (1845–62)
  • Κοσμος: A General Survey of the Physical Phenomena of the Universe... (1845), translated by E. J. L. Sabine under the supervision of her husband E. Sabine (Vol 1 external scan)
  • Cosmos: Sketch of a Physical Description of the Universe (1848), translated by E. J. L. Sabine under the supervision of her husband E. Sabine (Vol 2 external scan)
• Briefe von Alexander von Humboldt an Varnhagen von Ense, aus den Jahren 1827 bis 1858... (1860)
  • Letters of Alexander von Humboldt to Varnhagen von Ense, from 1827 to 1858... (1860), translated by F. Kapp (external scan)

Works about Humboldt

• "Alexander von Humboldt" by Emil du Bois-Reymond in Popular Science Monthly, 24 (December 1883)
• "Humboldt, Friedrich Heinrich Alexander von," by Agnes Mary Clerke in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Humboldt, Friedrich Heinrich Alexander von," in Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography, New York: D. Appleton and Co. (1900)
• The Life, Travels and Books of Alexander Von Humboldt by Richard Henry Stoddard (1859) (external scan)
• Alexander Von Humboldt by Hermann Klencke (1852) (external scan)