Alexander von Humboldt, Prussian naturalist and explorer, (c19th century) Product:Greetings card 'Christ the Comforter'

'Christ the Comforter'

Great Temple

founder of Winchester College and New College

The exterior of Gresham College with two figures in the foreground

and stylised floral decoration

Alexander von Humboldt, Prussian naturalist and explorer, (c19th century) Product:Greetings card 'Christ the Comforter'Alexander von Humboldt, Prussian naturalist and explorer, (c19th century). Humboldt's (1769 1859) interests included geophysics, geology and botany and he is sometimes called the founder of ecology. In 1800 1804, together with the French botanist Aime Bonpland (1773 1858), he explored the Orinoco and Amazon regions and collected 60,000 plant specimens.