Title

Alexander von Humboldt, German naturalist, c1830. Artist: William Home Lizars

Caption

Alexander von Humboldt, German naturalist, c1830. Humboldt's (1769-1859) interests included geophysics, geology and botany and he is sometimes called the founder of ecology. He is shown here at the time of his expedition in South America (1800-1804) when, with the French botanist Aime Bonpland (1773-1858), he explored the Orinoco and Amazon regions and collected 60,000 plant specimens.
Oxford Science Archive

Date

1830

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images

Reference

HRM19B65_429

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

49,9Mb (2,5Mb) / 11,8in x 16,4in / 3547 x 4921 (300dpi)

Keywords

Germany people male job man men German country meteorological meteorology exploration science ecology guy occupation geography scientist location century profession explorer concept botany B&W botanist MONOCHROME natural history naturalist 19th century black & white black and white B W famous people geophysicist geophysics meteorologist nineteenth century Oxford Science Archive geographer Alexander von Humboldt engraving portrait Aime Humboldt Alexander von Baron William Home Lizars WH Lizars Aime Bonpland Bonpland Lizars William Home Aime Bonpland engraving portrait