Author:Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander Freiherr von Humboldt

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

Prussian naturalist and explorer

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)
  • Researches Concerning the Monuments of the Ancient Inhabitants of America - tr. Helen Maria Williams - Vol. 1 (1814) (transcription project)
  • Researches Concerning the Monuments of the Ancient Inhabitants of America - tr. Helen Maria Williams - Vol. 2 (1814) (transcription project)
  • 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)
  • 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

Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1930, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.

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