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Descritto dai suoi contemporanei come uno degli uomini più celebri della sua epoca, Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) è stato uno dei personaggi più ammirati del XIX secolo. Fratello minore di Wilhelm, Alexander fu insieme e nello stesso tempo botanico, naturalista, esploratore e geografo. Nel 1799 si imbarcò insieme ad Aimé Jacques Alexandre Bonpland (1773-1858) in un viaggio che li condusse prima a Tenerife, quindi in Venezuela, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Perù e Messico. Frutto di questo e di altri avventurosi viaggi è una nutrita produzione letteraria e scientifica che in questo volume viene indagata unitamente alle numerose sfaccettature della figura di Humboldt e ai molteplici influssi della sua opera e del suo pensiero in ambito storico, geografico, letterario e linguistico.
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Científicos --- Scientists --- Ciencia --- Historia --- Humboldt, Alexander von,
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Scientific expeditions --- Expediciones científicas --- Botany --- Botánica --- Humboldt, Alexander von, --- Humboldt, Wilhelm von, --- Colombia --- Germany --- Relations
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Le voyage d'Alexandre de Humboldt en Amérique espagnole ouvre la voie aux grandes expéditions scientifiques du XIXè siècle. Naturaliste, physicien, géographe et historien, Humboldt a rapporté d'Amérique une masse énorme de données et d'observations. Les trente volumes de son Voyage aux régions équinoxiales du Nouveau Continent couvrent trois vastes domaines: sciences de la Terre, sciences naturelles et sciences de l'homme. Charles Minguet présente et analyse les résultats du voyage et surtout l'étude humboldtienne des groupes humains, coexistant en Amérique sous la domination espagnole. Humboldt réévalue le passé indigène précolombien, en fondant l'anthropologie, l'ethnologie et l'archéologie américanistes. En même temps, il dresse un tableau géographique, économique, politique, total et chiffré.
HIS History & Biographies --- Latin America --- history and biographies --- history of botany --- portraits --- Humboldt, Alexander von --- Explorers --- Germany --- Biography --- History --- To 1830 --- Humboldt, Alexander von, --- Discoverers --- Navigators --- Voyagers --- Adventure and adventurers --- Heroes --- Discoveries in geography --- Humboldtas, Alexandras von, --- Humboldt, Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von, --- Humboldt, Alejandro de, --- Gumbolʹdt, Aleksandr, --- Von Humboldt, Alexander, --- Humboldt, Alexander, --- Humboldt, Alexandre de, --- Humboldt, A. de, --- Humboldt, Al. von, --- Humboldt, --- הומבאלד, אלכסנדר פאן --- Explorers - Germany - Biography --- Humboldt, Alexander von, - 1769-1859 --- Humboldt, Alexander von, - 1769-1859 - Travel - South America --- Latin America - History - To 1830 --- voyages --- Amérique Latine
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Long description: Der Band eröffnet die neue Reihe der Postkolonialen Studien in der Germanistik. In diesem Buch liegt das Augenmerk auf Ausprägungen „des Orientalischen“ einerseits und „des Amerikanischen“ andererseits und auf Europa als ihrem mitzudenkenden Dritten. Die Quellen und Schauplätze reichen von der Literatur des Mittelalters über die Forschungsreisen der Goethezeit, die Romantisierung von Landschaft und die exotischen Entgrenzungsprojekte der Moderne bis zur zeitgenössischen Verklärung von Tropikalität. Der methodische Grundimpuls der Studien zielt darauf, kulturelle Alteritätsformeln nicht als ‚Einbahnstraße‘ von Fremdbildern, Projektionen und Stereotypen zu betrachten, sondern in Austauschprozessen, Wanderungsbewegungen und Transfers zu verorten. Biographical note: Alexander Honold, geb. 1962 in Valdivia/Chile, ist Ordinarius für Neuere deutsche Literaturwissenschaft an der Universität Basel. Lehrtätigkeit u.a. in Berlin und Konstanz; zahlreiche Buchpublikationen, Aufsätze und Literaturkritiken. Zuletzt erschienen: Mit Deutschland um die Welt. Eine Kulturgeschichte des Fremden in der Kolonialzeit. Stuttgart 2004 (Mhg.); Ins Fremde schreiben. Gegenwartsliteratur auf den Spuren historischer und fantastischer Entdeckungsreisen. Göttingen 2009 (Mhg.); Kilimandscharo. Die deutsche Geschichte eines afrikanischen Berges. Berlin 2011 (zusammen mit Christof Hamann).
Indianer --- Auslandsgermanistik --- Kafka, Franz --- Humboldt, Alexander von --- europäischer Kolonialismus --- Postkoloniale Literatur --- Kulturtransfers --- Herzog, Werner --- Kotzebue, August von --- jüdische Perspektiven --- Tropenliteratur --- Poetik der Arabeske
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This book looks to the writings of prolific statesmen like D.F. Sarmiento, Estanislao Zeballos, and Euclides da Cunha to unearth the literary and political roots of the discipline of geography in nineteenth-century Latin America. Tracing the simultaneous rise of text-writing, map-making, and institution-building, it offers new insight into how nations consolidated their territories. Beginning with the titanic figures of Strabo and Humboldt, it rereads foundational works like Facundo and Os sertões as examples of a recognizably geographical discourse. The book digs into lesser-studied bulletins, correspondence, and essays to tell the story of how three statesmen became literary stars while spearheading Latin America’s first geographic institutes, which sought to delineate the newly independent states. Through a fresh pairing of literary analysis and institutional history, it reveals that words and maps—literature and geography—marched in lockstep to shape national territories, identities, and narratives.
Humboldt, Alexander von, --- Humboldtas, Alexandras von, --- Humboldt, Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von, --- Humboldt, Alejandro de, --- Gumbolʹdt, Aleksandr, --- Von Humboldt, Alexander, --- Humboldt, Alexander, --- Humboldt, Alexandre de, --- Humboldt, A. de, --- Humboldt, Al. von, --- Humboldt, --- הומבאלד, אלכסנדר פאן --- Literature, Modern-20th century. --- Literature . --- Twentieth-Century Literature. --- Postcolonial/World Literature. --- Belles-lettres --- Western literature (Western countries) --- World literature --- Philology --- Authors --- Authorship --- Literature, Modern—20th century.
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Humboldt and Jefferson explores the world in which these two Enlightenment figures lived and the ways their lives on opposite sides of the Atlantic defined their respective convictions.
Scientific expeditions. --- Expeditions, Scientific --- Scientific voyages --- Travels --- Voyages, Scientific --- Voyages and travels --- Jefferson, Thomas, --- Humboldt, Alexander von, --- Humboldtas, Alexandras von, --- Humboldt, Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von, --- Humboldt, Alejandro de, --- Gumbolʹdt, Aleksandr, --- Von Humboldt, Alexander, --- Humboldt, Alexander, --- Humboldt, Alexandre de, --- Humboldt, A. de, --- Humboldt, Al. von, --- Humboldt, --- הומבאלד, אלכסנדר פאן
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"The incalculable influence of Alexander von Humboldt (1769 1859) on biology, botany, geology, and meteorology deservedly earned him the reputation as the world's most illustrious scientist before Charles Darwin. From 1799 to 1804, Humboldt's breath-taking explorations of Mexico and South America are akin to Europe's second "discovery" of the New World--this time, a scientific one. His Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain is a foundational document about Mexico and its cultures and is still widely consulted by anthropologists, geographers, and historians. In Humboldt's Mexico Myron Echenberg presents a straightforward guide with historical and cultural context to Humboldt's travels in Mexico. Humboldt packed a lifetime of scientific studies into one daunting year, and soon after published a four-volume account of his findings. His adventures range widely from inspections of colonial silver mines, hikes to the summits of volcanoes, meticulous examination of secret Spanish colonial archives in Mexico City, and scientific discussions of archaeological sites of pre-Hispanic Indigenous cultures. Echenberg traces Humboldt's journey, as described in his publications, his diary, and other writings, across the heartland of Mexico, while also pursuing Humboldt's life, his science, his experiences, his influence on scholars of his time and after, and the various efforts by others to honour and at times to denigrate his legacy. Part history, part travelogue, and always highly readable and informative, Humboldt's Mexico is an engaging account of a gifted scientist and visionary that ranges across topics as diverse and broad as the Romantic-era natural history."--
Scientists --- Germans --- Ethnology --- Professional employees --- Travel --- Humboldt, Alexander von, --- Humboldtas, Alexandras von, --- Humboldt, Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von, --- Humboldt, Alejandro de, --- Gumbolʹdt, Aleksandr, --- Von Humboldt, Alexander, --- Humboldt, Alexander, --- Humboldt, Alexandre de, --- Humboldt, A. de, --- Humboldt, Al. von, --- Humboldt, --- הומבאלד, אלכסנדר פאן --- Mexico --- History. --- Description and travel. --- Description and travel
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This book shows how Alexander von Humboldt's British translators, now largely forgotten figures, were pivotal in moulding his prose and his public persona as they reconfigured his works for readers in Britain and beyond.
Scientists --- Humboldt, Alexander von, --- Humboldtas, Alexandras von, --- Humboldt, Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von, --- Humboldt, Alejandro de, --- Gumbolʹdt, Aleksandr, --- Von Humboldt, Alexander, --- Humboldt, Alexander, --- Humboldt, Alexandre de, --- Humboldt, A. de, --- Humboldt, Al. von, --- Humboldt, --- הומבאלד, אלכסנדר פאן --- Translations into English. --- Naturalists --- Natural history --- History. --- History, Natural --- Natural science --- Physiophilosophy --- Biology --- Science --- Historians, Natural --- Natural historians
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Life sciences. --- Humboldt, Alexander von, --- Biosciences --- Sciences, Life --- Science --- Humboldtas, Alexandras von, --- Humboldt, Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von, --- Humboldt, Alejandro de, --- Gumbolʹdt, Aleksandr, --- Von Humboldt, Alexander, --- Humboldt, Alexander, --- Humboldt, Alexandre de, --- Humboldt, A. de, --- Humboldt, Al. von, --- Humboldt, --- הומבאלד, אלכסנדר פאן
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