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Alexander Von Humboldt: A Concise Biography by Andreas W. Daum candlewick a child observes their worldAn engaging account of the life and work of the legendary polymath Alexander von Humboldt In this lucid biography, Andreas Daum offers a succinct and novel interpretation of the life and oeuvre of Alexander von Humboldt (17691859). A Prussian nobleman born into the age of European Enlightenment, Humboldt was a contemporary of Napoleon, Simn Bolvar, and Charles Darwin. As a naturalist and scholar, he traveled the world, from the Americas to Central