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Alexander von Humboldt
Alexander von Humboldt, oil on canvas by Julius Schrader, 1859; in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City.
Alexander von Humboldt, the renowned German naturalist and explorer, died on May 6, 1859, in Berlin.1