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Alexander von Humboldt
was born in Berlin on September 14, 1769, and studied at the Universities of Frankfurt an der Oder, Berlin and Goettingen. He travelled to South America as an explorer and, at the Russian Tsar's request, to northern Siberia. Alexander von Humboldt is widely respected as one of the founders of modern geography. Charles Darwin described him as 'the greatest scientific traveler who ever lived'. Alexander von Humboldt's travels, experiments, and research transformed western science in the nineteenth century.
Oliver Lubrich
teaches Comparative Literature at the University of Berlin.
Ottmar Ette
holds the Chair of Romance Languages at Potsdam University and has published widerly on Alexander von Humboldt.
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was founded in 1980, and is one of the few independent general publishers operating in Germany. Its strong and diversified list includes fiction and non-fiction; humour and reference books, Die Andere Bibliothek (The Other Library) imprint, edited by Hans Magnus Enzensberger, and Eichborn Berlin which focuses on literary debuts in German. Many titles originally published by Eichborn have been translated into English, including W.G.Sebald's The Emigrants and The Rings of Saturn; A Woman in Berlin by Anonymous; Anita Albus' The Art of Arts; Karen Duve's Rain; Walter Moers' The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear and Berlin Blues by Sven Regener.
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