One German who struck up a friendship with Simon Bolivar en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sim%C3%B3n_Bol%C3%ADvar before he became “the liberator” was Alexander von Humboldt. They met in Paris sometime in 1804, and later in Rome. Some writings suggest that it was Humboldt who encouraged Bolivar to challenge Spanish dominance in South America, which probably overstates his role, but their later correspondence indicated that they did talk politics in those early days. . . . . Two years later, Bolkivar wrote to a colleague in Paraguay about how honored he had been in youth by his friendship with ‘Baron de Humboldt,’ whose learning has done America more good than all of the conquistadores.” . . . Page 165
. . . . Humboldt five year journey to the equinoctial
Regions, undertaken with the French botanist Aime Bonpland. The journey made his name. Humboldt regurned in 1804 a celebrity – “Our conqueror of the world,” the Goete’s words. The English social theorist Harriet Martineau would call him “the Monarch of science,’ Lord Byron put him into his poem ‘Don Juan’. 165
When his mother died in 1799, Hamboldt came into money and resigned his position, contemplating a more ambitious journey like the one that had made the name of his friend Foster. He hoped to be pat of Napoleon’s Egypt expedition, but that fell through, insead, he and Nonpland travelled to americas. The two scientists left the Spanishg port of La Coruna that June, stopping briefly in Tenerif before sailing onto Venezuela. There they explored the Orinoco and established navigated the Orinoco in a forty foot boat lades with guides, scientific instruments, plant samples. . . . . Page 166
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. . . . Humboldt five year journey to the equinoctial
Regions, undertaken with the French botanist Aime Bonpland. The journey made his name. Humboldt regurned in 1804 a celebrity – “Our conqueror of the world,” the Goete’s words. The English social theorist Harriet Martineau would call him “the Monarch of science,’ Lord Byron put him into his poem ‘Don Juan’. 165
When his mother died in 1799, Hamboldt came into money and resigned his position, contemplating a more ambitious journey like the one that had made the name of his friend Foster. He hoped to be pat of Napoleon’s Egypt expedition, but that fell through, insead, he and Nonpland travelled to americas. The two scientists left the Spanishg port of La Coruna that June, stopping briefly in Tenerif before sailing onto Venezuela. There they explored the Orinoco and established navigated the Orinoco in a forty foot boat lades with guides, scientific instruments, plant samples. . . . . Page 166