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Humboldt is strangely forgotten these days. He was an enormous figure in his time and soon after, in the 19th century. An ideal heir to the Age of Enlightenment
by NelsonMinar 5y ago
Humboldt is strangely forgotten these days. He was an enormous figure in his time and soon after, in the 19th century. An ideal heir to the Age of Enlightenment. There's places named for him all over the world. But now his name mostly gets a confused shrug.
- carapace 5y agoIIRC this was addressed in that book: his repute was tarnished by the wave of anti-German sentiment stemming from WWI.