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1. Von Humboldt Eisenstein - MacTutor History of Mathematics

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Von_Humboldt_Eisenstein/

   7 Mar 2023: The following is an extract from Karl Bruhns (ed, ) Life Of Alexander von Humboldt: Compiled in Commemoration of the Centenary of his Birth, Translated from the German by Jane and Caroline ... Before giving the extract, let us note that Friedrich Wilhelm

2. Carl Jacobi (1804 - 1851) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Jacobi/

   13 Oct 2026: Let us now return to Dirichlet and Alexander von Humboldt's attempts to help obtain support for Jacobi's trip to Italy. ... H Pieper (ed.), Briefwechsel zwischen Alexander von Humboldt und C G Jacob Jacobi (Berlin, 1987).

3. May Prize - MacTutor History of Mathematics

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Honours/May_Prize/

   19 Oct 2026: Following the death of Kenneth O May in 1977, the International Commission on the History of Mathematics wished to honour his memory. He was instrumental in creating a unified international community of historians of mathematics through his tireless

4. Berlin Academy of Science - MacTutor History of Mathematics

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Societies/Berlin/

   5 Dec 2024: He is especially important for the history of the Berlin Academy of Sciences, to which he was elected in 1827 with the strong support of Alexander von Humboldt.

5. Professor Alexandru Lupas (1942-2007) - AMS obituary - MacTutor…

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Obituaries/Lupas/

   7 Mar 2023: During this period, he obtained, after severe competition, a Humboldt scholarship at the Universities of Stuttgart and Tübingen. ... Mathematical Society, of the Society of Mathematical Sciences in Romania, of the Director Committee of the Romanian

6. Werner Heisenberg - MacTutor History of Mathematics

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/TimesObituaries/Heisenberg/

   28 May 2025: In 1951 he became President of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

7. Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet English version PDF (663k)

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Strick/dirichlet.pdf

   4 Mar 2021: In the year 1828, ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT organized a congress of the Gesellschaft Deutscher. ... accompany JACOBI on a convalescence trip to Italy; ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT saw to it that neither.

8. sci_hi PDF (270k)

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/SH/dirichlet_sh.pdf

   11 Dec 2025: Habilitation or Not. In 1825, encouraged by Alexander von Humboldt, Dirichlet decided to return to Germany. ... Carl Gustav Jacobi wrote in a letter to Alexander von Humboldt on 21 December 1846:.

9. Lejeune Dirichlet (1805 - 1859) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Dirichlet/

   13 Oct 2026: He was encouraged in this by Alexander von Humboldt who made recommendations on his behalf. ... Dirichlet then made a request for assistance from Friedrich Wilhelm IV, supported strongly by Alexander von Humboldt, which was successful.

10. Scriba publications - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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    5 Oct 2026: Acta historica Leopoldina 27 (= Natur, Mathematik und Geschichte: Beiträge zur Alexander-von-Humboldt-Forschung und zur Mathematikhistoriographie. ... In: Kosmos und Zahl. Beiträge zur Mathematik- und Astronomiegeschichte, zu Alexander von Humboldt und