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Alexander von Humboldt Memorial

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Alexander von Humboldt Memorial

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Location: Bad Steben, Landkreis Hof, Vogtland, Saxony, Germany

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Andrea und Huskys 🐺

June 20, 2025

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In July 1792, the explorer Alexander von Humboldt took over the mining offices in the Franconian Forest. He settled in Bad Steben. Von Humboldt greatly advanced mining in the region and was very successful. In 1795, Alexander von Humboldt left Bad Steben to pursue new challenges. His traces can still be seen in many places in the Franconian Forest and the Fichtel Mountains.

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Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt (September 14, 1769 in Berlin; † May 6, 1859 there) was a German explorer whose field of activity extended far beyond Europe. In his complete works, which he created over a period of more than seven decades, he created "a new level of knowledge and reflection on knowledge of the world"[1] and became a co-founder of geography as an empirical science. source Wikipedia

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