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20 November 2019|Ausstellung

Virtual permanent exhibition: The digital Humboldt

Museumsscan Dataport

Photo: Dataport AöR, Matterport, Inc.

Explorer, writer, diplomat: In the Humboldt anniversary year 2019, the special exhibition "Humboldt Lives!" put the focus on Alexander von Humboldt's...
16 September 2019|Interview

GEO Interview: "That Humboldt was the first to measure the world is a myth".

CeNak-Direktor Matthias Glaubrecht

Photo: UHH, RRZ/MCC, Reiss

Alexander von Humboldt would have turned 250 these days. In this anniversary year, the famous discoverer of nature is in the spotlight. Matthias...
24 July 2019|Veranstaltung

Travel, Research, Writing: A Reading of Humboldt's "Complete Writings

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Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was one of the most famous explorers, but also one of the most international publicists of his time. However, the...
21 June 2019|Veranstaltung

On the road with Humboldt in Hamburg

grüner Zweig mit lachsfarbener Blüte

Photo: «Rhexia speciosa», in: Alexander von Humboldt, Monographie des Melastomacées, Paris: Libraire grecque-latine-allemande [1806–] 1823, Band 2, Tafel 4. (S. 17)

Alexander von Humboldt traveled and explored the world. He is considered the founder of plant geography and a pioneer of ecology - and viewed nature...
11 June 2019|Veranstaltung

Literature Meets Nature: A Reluctant Berliner Between Hamburg and Havana

Altstadt von Havanna

Photo: Pixabay/dwoodsi

Alejandro de Humboldt clearly feels at home in the middle of Havana: On a secluded, green-covered square, a bust dedicated to the explorer and...
27 May 2019|Veranstaltung

Malvazees and bombazees

drei Musiker

Photo: Alfreg Gut

More than 200 years ago, Alexander von Humboldt collected and explored the plant world of South America. In a historical-musical homage to the great...
21 May 2019|Veranstaltung

"Literature Meets Nature": Humboldt's Animal Life in the Tropics

Humboldt

Photo: Universitätsbibliothek Bern

From South American manatees to electric electric eels: Alexander von Humboldt studied all kinds of animals that crossed his travel routes. Yet his...
7 May 2019|Ausstellung

Exhibition opening: On the trail of the other Humboldt

Ausstellungseröffnung Humboldt lebt

Photo: UHH, RRZ/MCC, Mentz

When Humboldt embarked on his most important expedition to South America 220 years ago, he had no idea that he would be climbing snow-covered...
21 March 2019|News

Alexander von Humboldt and the beginnings of plant geography

Herbarium Hamburgense

Photo: Scan Herbarbogen: Herbarium, Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin

With his "Natural Painting of the Andes," Alexander von Humboldt popularized plant geography. How do we read this epochal depiction today, which is...
28 February 2019|Interview

Alexander von Humboldt: A Naturalist Between Legend and Truth

Humboldt Chimborazo

Photo: „Naturgemälde der Anden“, Tübingen, J.G. Cotta 1807

Alexander von Humboldt was already a legend during his lifetime. He was a dazzling personality and an artist of self-dramatization. Even though his...
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