CONTENTS 



OF 



THE FIEST VOLUME. 



I. 



ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT.. YOUTH AND EARLY 

 MANHOOD. BY JULIUS LOWENBERG. 



CHAPTER I. 



EARLY HOME. 



Signification of Name Traditional History Ancestry and Parentage 

 Tegeland Childhood Tutors, and Bent of Mind Universal Enthusiasm 

 for Geographical Discovery Overwork and Illness Preparations for 

 the University State of Society at Berlin .... PAGE 3 



CHAPTER II. 

 COLLEGE LIFE. 



The University of Frankfort Studies in Finance and Philology The Win- 

 ter of 1788 at Berlin The University of Gottingen Short Journeys 

 ' Observations on some Basalts of the Rhine ' Journey with George 

 Forster- School of Commerce at Hamburg Application for Official 

 Employment School of Mines at Freiberg 44 



CHAPTER III. 



OFFICIAL EMPLOYMENT. 



Assessor of Mines Animus of Official Administration Official Employ- 

 ment only a Stepping-stone to more important Scientific Schemes 

 Commission in Franconia Appointment as Superintendent of Mines 



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