<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?> <oai_dc:dc xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"> <dc:description>1787-1792 studies at the universities of Frankfurt an der Oder and Göttingen, and at the academies of commerce in Hamburg and of mining in Freiberg, Saxony; private studies of botany under Willdenow in Berlin; 1790 travel to the Netherlands, England and France with Georg Forster; 1792, after completing his studies, entry into the Prussian mining service; mining leader in the Prussian part of Upper Franconia; foundation of a "free mining school"; 1796 withdrawal from the civil service; from 1797 preparations for a trip to the West Indies and travels to Dresden, Prague, Vienna and Paris; 20 October 1798 departure from Paris with Aimé Bonpland and stay at Madrid where he receives permission to make a research tour through the Spanish colonies; 1799-1804 journey with Bonpland to what is now Venezuela, Cuba, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, and Mexico; return to Paris and from 1805-1807 visits to Rome, Naples, Zurich, Göttingen and Berlin; 1807 diplomatic mission to Paris, where he stayed until 1827 to evaluate his research findings; 1827 return to Berlin; royal chamberlain, adviser on science and art, and from 1842 chancellor of the peace division of the order pour le mérite; 1829 Siberian trip as a guest of the Russian government; honorary doctorates from the universities of Frankfurt an der Oder (1805), Dorpat (1827), Bonn (1828), Tübingen (1845), Prague (1848), and St. Andrews (1853); 1827 honorary president of the Société de Géographie in Paris.</dc:description> <dc:identifier>https://vlp-new.ur.de/people/per302</dc:identifier> <dc:identifier>http://d-nb.info/gnd/118554700</dc:identifier> <dc:identifier>oai:vlp-new.ur.de:per302</dc:identifier> <dc:relation>https://vlp-new.ur.de/records/lit15947</dc:relation> <dc:relation>https://vlp-new.ur.de/records/lit15951</dc:relation> <dc:relation>https://vlp-new.ur.de/records/lit15953</dc:relation> <dc:rights>info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess</dc:rights> <dc:rights>https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/</dc:rights> <dc:title>Humboldt, Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von</dc:title> </oai_dc:dc>