Fara Patricia
Clare College, Cambridge CB2 1TL, UK.
Endeavour. 2008 Mar;32(1):3-4. doi: 10.1016/j.endeavour.2008.01.001. Epub 2008 Feb 13.
After he returned from his five-year expedition to the New World, Alexander von Humboldt promoted himself as a Romantic explorer. Although this image pervades British perceptions, political movements have fashioned different heroic versions of Humboldt in Germany and South America.
在结束对新大陆长达五年的探险归来后，亚历山大·冯·洪堡将自己塑造成一位浪漫主义探险家。尽管这种形象在英国人的认知中普遍存在，但在德国和南美洲，不同的政治运动塑造了洪堡不同的英雄形象。
