4 Alexander von Humboldt. 
whom may be named LaPlace, Lalande, — ea Kunth 
Bonpland, Oltmans, Oersted, Bichat, Del ambre, 1 Ber-. 
zelius, Da Robert Brown, Dalton, Herschel, DeCaneanes 
Latreille, Pncienan: Audubon, David d’ Angier, Arago, 
Gauss, Ritter, Miiller, Leopold yon Bu ch, Varnhagen von Ense, 
mpte, Biot, et al., names themselves suggesting discoveries, 
inventions and unbounded knowledge. 
von HuMBoLpr was bornin Berlin on the 14th of 
Seabee 1769, and died there on the 6th of May, 1859, in the 
ninetieth year of his age. A rapid sketch of he Sm and 
early manhood will serve to show how well he prepared him- 
most of the learned academies of which he was a mem an. 
certainly not less than any of the great Voyages of Dias ie f 
and celebrated Exploring Expeditions con apa at the public © 
e course pursued wi so peculiar, and 
contrasts so completely with the usual ee Fol training in the 
colleges of this country, even in the Bet his ac Suitcaaal that 
d blessed in his eerie aS whose virtues, devotion to 
her boys, en purpose, and common sense he owed a 
+ oe ae tho alitignl wena which he disliked, an a 
in oe physical world, which he adored. The earliest tutor choselt 
by the mother to teach and es with the two boys was Campe 
e educationist, who among other children’s books, edited in 
German, Robinson Crusoe, a work which no doubt had its early 
ided enc: in their boyish games and studies, and how faith- 
y he labored for and with them in after life, Sak the ‘hiecend 
bear — testimony. The next year, when Alexander was 
‘a ow 
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