TY  - JOUR
A1  - Rupke, Nicolaas A.
T1  - A Metabiography of Alexander von Humboldt
N2  - The author’s recently published monograph on Alexander von Humboldt' describes the multiple images of this great cultural icon. The book is a metabiographical study that shows how from the middle of the nineteenth century to the present day Humboldt has served as a nucleus of crystallisation for a variety of successive socio-political ideologies, each producing its own distinctive representation of him. The historiographical implications of this biographical diversity are profound and support current attempts to understand historical scholarship in terms of memory cultures.
KW  - Alexander von Humboldt
KW  - Universalgelehrter
KW  - biographical diversity
KW  - metabiographical study about Humboldt
Y1  - 2006
UR  - https://edoc.bbaw.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/154
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b4360-100688
UR  - http://edoc.bbaw.de/oa/articles/re7crvQ6n7Pt2/PDF/23a0ZzBDfmozg.pdf
ER  -