chamberlain of crown princess & military officer Alexander Georg von Humboldt (1720-1779)
Marie-Elisabeth von Holwede née Colomb (1741-1796) (mother) ; statesman and scholar Wilhelm (1767-1835) (brother) ;
pupil of etcher artist Daniel Chodowiecki (1726-1801) ; natural history and sciences
Germany
Aimé Bonpland (1773-1858) ; Achille Richard, Saint-Hilaire & Carl Sigismund Kunth: Nova genera et speciees plantarum (1816) ; Carl L. Willdenow on Linné's Plantarum Mem Acad Roy. Sci. 1804 ; José Celestino Mutis ;
Leopoldina, Prussian & Bavarian Academy of Sciences ;
Aimé Bonpland ; Pierre Antoine Poiteau ; engraver P. J. F. Turpin ; engraver Johann Stephan Capieux ;
botanical drawing, chalk, watercolour, and etching ; nature print ;