Die Fußnote über Geognosia in Humboldts Florae Fribergensis specimen

• Main Authors: Herbert Pieper, Eberhard Knobloch
• Format: Article
• Language: deu
• Published: Universität Potsdam 2007-04-01
• Series: HiN - Alexander von Humboldt im Netz. Internationale Zeitschrift für Humboldt-Studien
• Subjects: Alexander von Humboldt; Herbert Pieper; Eberhard Knobloch; Florae Fribergensis specimen; Geognosie
• Online Access: http://www.uni-potsdam.de/u/romanistik/humboldt/hin/hin14/knobloch-pieper.htm

Article in German, Abstracts in English and GermanHumboldt distinguished between three disciplines dealing with the inquiring of the earth: geognosia, historia telluris, physiografia. In 1793, he used the notion of “Geognosie” for the first time. He explained the notion in a footnote that was reprinted in 1815, 1817, and again in 1845. The paper analyses the meaning attributed by Humboldt to the notion of “Geognosie” and gives a new German translation of the Latin texts of the footnote.