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 4877 Humboldt & Alexander von Humboldt - Beethoven Sanatorium (Teplice, North Bohemia)
N 50° 38.328 E 013° 49.685
33U E 417131 N 5610314
Main-belt asteroid 4877 Humboldt (5066 T-2) bears name of an Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt. The given coordinates mark the memorial tablet devoted to him, which is located on Beethoven Sanatorium in Teplice spa.
Waymark Code: WMVD50
Location: Ústecký kraj, Czechia
Date Posted: 04/03/2017
Views: 33
Main-belt asteroid 4877 Humboldt (5066 T-2) bears name of an Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt. The given coordinates mark the memorial tablet devoted to Humboldt, which is located on Beethoven Sanatorium in Teplice spa.
Asteroid 4877 Humboldt (5066 T-2) was discovered by Dutch astronomers Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels in the frame of Palomar-Leiden-Surveys on September 25, 1973.
The tablet on the facade bears following inscription in Czech, French, English and German:
Alexander von Humboldt 1769-1859
V tomto dome pobýval v letech
C'est danscet etablissement, q'uil a vécu entre
In diesen Kurhaus wohnte in den Jahren
Lived in this building between
1827-1839
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Teplice and its environment, especially North Bohemian volcanic landscape of the Central Bohemian Uplands, was favoured target of frequent Humboldt's visits of Czech Lands. The waymarked memorial tablet commemorates this notable scientist and great person of European history and also the site, where he spent lot of his time.
Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt (September 14, 1769 – May 6, 1859) was a Prussian geographer, naturalist, and explorer, and the younger brother of the Prussian minister, philosopher and linguist Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767–1835). Humboldt's quantitative work on botanical geography laid the foundation for the field of biogeography. Between 1799 and 1804, Humboldt travelled extensively in Latin America, exploring and describing it for the first time from a modern scientific point of view. His description of the journey was written up and published in an enormous set of volumes over 21 years. He was one of the first to propose that the lands bordering the Atlantic Ocean were once joined (South America and Africa in particular). Later, his five-volume work, Kosmos (1845), attempted to unify the various branches of scientific knowledge. Humboldt supported and worked with other scientists, including Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac, Justus von Liebig, Louis Agassiz, Matthew Fontaine Maury, Georg von Neumayer, and most notably, Aimé Bonpland, with whom he conducted much of his scientific exploration.
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