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Germany (DDR): Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt; 14 Sept 1769–6 May 1859) was a Prussian geographer, naturalist, explorer, and influential proponent of Romantic philosophy and science.[ Humboldt's quantitative work on botanical geography laid the foundation for the field of biogeography. Humboldt's advocacy of long-term systematic geophysical measurement laid the foundation for modern geomagnetic and meteorological monitoring. Between 1799 and 1804, Humboldt traveled extensively in Latin America, exploring and describing it for the first time from a modern scientific point of view. His description of the journey was written up and published in an enormous set of volumes over 21 years. Humboldt was one of the first people to propose that the lands bordering the Atlantic Ocean were once joined (South America and Africa in particular). Humboldt resurrected the use of the word cosmos from the ancient Greek and assigned it to his multi-volume treatise, Kosmos, in which he sought to unify diverse branches of scientific knowledge and culture. This important work also motivated a holistic perception of the universe as one interacting entity. (Wikipedia)

Scott # DD-431. Issued May 9, 1959. Commemorative. Offset Lithography. 27.5x33mm. Brownish Red. 20 Pf. In excellent condition. L0210

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