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Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was a German polymath, geographer, naturalist, explorer, and proponent of Romantic philosophy and science. He travelled extensively in the Americas, exploring and describing them for the first time from a modern Western scientific point of view, which laid the foundation for the field of biogeography.
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