It was a journey that shaped his life and thinking, and that made him legendary across the globe.
As a young man he set out on a five-year exploration to Latin America, risking his life many times and returning with a new sense of the world. Born in 1769 into a wealthy Prussian aristocratic family, he discarded a life of privilege to discover for himself how the world worked. He saw the Earth as one great living organism where everything was connected, conceiving a bold new vision of nature that still influences the way that we understand the natural world.ĭescribed by his contemporaries as the most famous man in the world after Napoleon, Humboldt was one of the most captivating and inspiring men of his time. As he stood at the top of the world, looking down upon the mountain ranges folded beneath him, Humboldt began to see the world differently. No one had ever come this high before, and no one had ever breathed such thin air. David Wootton: Before there was progress.Gordon: And then there was light - the revolutionary invention that lit up the world Laqueur: History’s ghosts - what we can learn from modern and historic burial practices Philippe Sands: A criminal at Nuremberg.Article content Recommended from Editorial This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
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