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The expression of vanity and self-love becomes less offensive, when it retains something of simplicity and frankness.

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Alexander von Humboldt
Age: 89 †
Born: 1769
Born: September 14
Died: 1859
Died: May 6
Astronomer
Botanical Collector
Botanist
Chamberlain
Climatologist
Demographer
Economist
Essayist
Ethnologist
Explorer
Geheimrat
Geographer
Berlin
Germany
Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt
Friedrich Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt
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Freiherr Humboldt
Alexander Freiherr von Humboldt
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Alexander Freiherr Von Humboldt
Humb.
Friedrich Heinrich Alex.
Baron von Humboldt
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