Alexander Von Humboldt (full name Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich
Alexander Freiherr von Humboldt) was born on September 14, 1769
in Berlin , Germany. He was a Prussian naturalist and explorer,
and the younger brother of the Prussian minister, philosopher,
linguist Wilhelm von Humboldt. Biography and Career : His father
was a major in the Prussian army and after the Seven Years' War
he was rewarded with the job of Royal Chamberlaine. He married
to Maria Elizabeth von Colomb in 1766 and had two sons,
Alexander was the younger one. He was destined for a political
career, so he studied finance during six months at the
University of Frankfurt and one year later, on 25 April, 1789,
he matriculated at Gi¶ttingen, then e minent for the lectures of
CG Heyne and J. F. Blumenbach. In 1794 he was admitted to the
intimacy of Weimar coterie and had his contribution to
Schiller's new periodical, Die Horen, a philosophical allegory
entitled "Die Lebenskraft,oder der rhodische Genius". He went on
a short visit to England in the s