Alexander von Humboldt: A Metabiography
- ISBN 10: 0226731499
- ISBN 13: 9780226731490
- Author: Nicolaas Rupke
- Edition: University of Chicag
- Release: 2008-06-01
- Format: Paperback (316 pages)
- List Price: $21.00
- Tags: Biographies & Memoirs, General, General AAS, Professionals & Academics, Scientists, Professional & Technical
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Book Description: Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859) is one of the most celebrated figures of late-modern science, famous for his work in physical geography, botanical geography, and climatology climatology, and his role as one of the first great popularizers of the sciences. His momentous accomplishments have intrigued German biographers from the Prussian era to the fall of the Berlin wall, all of whom configured and reconfigured Humboldt’s life according to the sensibilities of the day. This volume, the first metabiography of the great scientist, traces Humboldt’s biographical identities through Germany’s collective past to shed light on the historical instability of our scientific heroes. “Rupke’s study . . . will doubtless become a standard reference for the Humboldt industry and for writers of scientific metabiographies to come.”—Isis  “Engaging. . . . Rupke’s meticulous analysis is fascinating on many scores.”—Times Higher Education Supplement (UK) “A study borne of considerable scholarship and one with important methodological implications for historians of geography.”—Charles W. J. Withers, Progress in Human Geography Â
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