• I was born in Berlin, Prussia in 1769.
  • I was educated at Frankfurt, Göttingen and Hamburg Universities where I studied a range of subjects including botany and the natural sciences. In 1790 I travelled abroad and published my first works in botanical and chemical journals.
  • In 1796, on the death of my mother, I received a large inheritance. This allowed me to travel considerably. Significant expeditions I took during my life included spending five years in the Americas from 1799 and a journey to Russia and Central Asia in 1829.
  • I used these journeys to make several stunning observations in disciplines such as botanic geography, meteorology and even climate change.
  • I am considered one of the great speculative scientific travellers of the nineteenth century.

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