Andrea Wulf
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 8 Jun
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But he thinks that, I mean, he's, he's,
dismayed by it, he really does not like violence but he thinks that the return to despotism
would be worse so he supports the french revolutionaries and then um and i'm not going to give away how he dies but he then dies in 1794 at the age of 39 so it's a short life but it's really quite a packed life which for biographer is just fabulous because you you know because his his adventures start when he's 10 so you don't have like 20 years of like he went to school you know and
to this school and this teacher thought he was clever you know you go straight into like a wild expedition and then you don't have this you know i mean even revolutionaries even um you know explorers they most of them end up with a quite boring
last few decades if they you know if they get Humboldt not at most of them so for a biographer this kind of short tight life is great because you have all the ideas without the kind of the tedious boredom of you know
daily life of your main character.
Yes.
I mean, it's not mainstream thinking what he's doing at all.
I mean, he's one of the very first to use the term human rights, for example.
And unlike the American and the French revolutionaries who very firmly excluded women, slaves, and non-Europeans, he includes that.
He talks about the general rights of mankind, and it means all people from every single part of this world and of every gender.
So he's way ahead of his contemporaries.
I mean, he's also – today he would be called a feminist because he's –
He believes in the equality between men and women.
He admires independent and strong-minded women.
He's married to one.
He believes in the education of girls.
He's a proud father of daughters.
So he's very unusual in that respect.
And the society he lives in does not approve at all.
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