Andrea Wulf
speaker
625 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 8 Jun
Andrea Wulf’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yes, he was.
That's why it's a triology.
He was.
So he is actually part of the Jena group.
He, not in the inner circle, but definitely in the outer circle.
So he comes to Jena for the first time in 1794 because his brother, Wilhelm von Humboldt, lives in Jena.
And he visits him.
And he then meets the kind of group he, and in particular, Goethe.
So
The friendship with Goethe, between Goethe and Alexander von Humboldt, is important for both of them, actually.
So when Humboldt arrives in 1794, he's in his 20s.
He's this young, very bright scientist, very much an Enlightenment scientist who believes in reason, rational thought, observation, experiments, his instruments.
And then you have Goethe, who is...
Germany's most famous poet, but he's also a scientist.
I mean, Goethe is a kind of great example of the arts and the sciences coming together.
So when he meets Humboldt, he is some Goethe's kind of natural history scholar.
thinking has been, as he said himself, in hibernation.
And meeting Humboldt is just like rain falling on a kind of a dry patch of earth.
And it's just sprouting all over.
And these two men just...
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