X-Nico

unusual facts about Humboldt's Gift


Friedrich von der Trenck

In Saul Bellow's novel Humboldt's Gift the character Charlie Citrine has written a successful Broadway play and a movie about a character named Von Trenck.


2nd Regiment California Volunteer Infantry

Company K, Ordered to Fort Humboldt December, 1861, thence to Fort Lyon and Fort Gaston, and duty there until June, 1863.

A A Mamun

He then performed postdoctoral studies in Germany and the UK, under an Alexander von Humboldt (AvH) Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and a Commonwealth Post-doctoral Research Fellowship.

Adam Oehlenschläger

Here he wrote the first of his great historical tragedies, Hakon Jarl, which he sent off to Copenhagen, and then proceeded for the winter months to Berlin, where he associated with Humboldt, Fichte, and the leading men of the day, and met Goethe for the first time.

Beaucamps-le-Vieux

Humboldt the Old (Fr: Humbaud le Vieux, Latin: Humbaldus Vetulus ou Veteris) Lord of Beaucamps, was a knight descendent of the "le Vieux d’Yvetot" a Normand family of French-Danish origins.

Bill Dollar

Dollar was born in Humboldt, Tennessee to Dick, a farmer, and Pauline, an English teacher.

Bob L. Beers

Originally from Eureka, California, Beers attended Arcata High School and Humboldt State College.

College of the Redwoods

Situated on a naturally occurring, elevated shelf on the southwest side of Humboldt Hill, the campus has a commanding view of some of California's most fertile dairy and ranch land, the Humboldt Bay National Wildlife Refuge, Table Bluff, and the southern portion of Humboldt Bay.

Cymbal-banging monkey toy

The Devil's Gift, a 1984 horror film, exhibits similarities to the Stephen King story and was later re-edited as the 1996 film Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders.

Disocactus phyllanthoides

Sims and Edwards state that it was discovered by the celebrated travellers Humboldt and Bonpland in April 1801, near the small village of Turbaco, near Cartagena, Colombia.

Edward C. T. Chao

He was a recipient of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Senior U.S. Scientist Award, and had an asteroid named for him, 3906 Chao.

Emmanuel's Gift

Emmanuel's Gift is a 2005 documentary narrating the life of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah, a disabled man born in Ghana.

German School New York

In addition, the school shares ties with the Alexander von Humboldt German International School of Montréal, Canada, the German School Washington, D.C. and the Colegio Humboldt in San José, Costa Rica, allowing numerous programs between schools.

Gibson County, Tennessee

It is included in the Jackson - Humboldt, Tennessee Combined Statistical Area.

Grey Court School

It is twinned with Alexander-von-Humboldt-Gymnasium in Konstanz, Germany.

Hacienda Humboldt

The Humboldt colonists already beginning in 1908 to emigrate to more active Mexican towns like Ciudad de Chihuahua and farming areas like the Mesilla Valley in the United States.

History of West Papua

While in 1828 the Dutch claimed the south coast west of the 141st meridian and the north coast west of Humboldt Bay in 1848, they did not try to develop the region again until 1896; they established settlements in Manokwari and Fak-Fak in response to perceived Australian ownership claims from the eastern half of New Guinea.

Humboldt Park

Humboldt Park, the former name of Martin Luther King, Jr. Park in Buffalo, New York; designed by Frederick Law Olmsted

Humboldt Redwoods Marathon

The Humboldt Redwoods Marathon is held annually in October along the Avenue of the Giants in scenic Humboldt Redwoods State Park in Humboldt County, CA.

Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest

There are local ranger district offices located in Austin, Bridgeport, Carson City, Las Vegas, and Tonopah.

Humboldt, Kansas

The Confederate raiders were commanded by Maj. Gen. Sterling Price and most of the troops and militia went to meet the threat further east.

Germans migrating from Hartford, Connecticut, began organizing a colony during the winter of 1856–57.

Isabel V. Hull

She is a winner of the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award and the Leo Gershoy Award, is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has been a Guggenheim Fellow and an Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung Research Fellow.

John R. Goodin

He moved to Humboldt, Kansas in 1859, was elected to the Kansas House of Representatives in 1866 and was judge of the seventh judicial district of Kansas from 1868 to 1876.

Jon Crosby

Crosby was born in Los Angeles, California, and grew up in Humboldt and Sonoma counties in Northern California, raised by a single mother from an upper-class family who owned a record store in Fortuna, California.

Kevin Dresser

Born in Fort Dodge and a native of Humboldt, Iowa, Dresser was a two-time high school wrestling state champion and four time place winner fifth (freshman) and sixth (sophomore) Humboldt High School.

KRZS

KMVA, a radio station (97.5 FM) licensed to Dewey-Humboldt, Arizona, United States, which held the call sign KRZS from 2005 to 2006

Lander County, Nevada

Created in 1861, Lander County sprang forth as the result of a mining boom on the Reese River, along the old pony express line; taking a considerable portion of Churchill and Humboldt counties with it.

Longnose pygmy shark

These records suggest that it may have a circumglobal distribution in the Southern Hemisphere, inhabiting subantarctic waters and cold ocean currents, including the Benguela and the Humboldt.

Lynne Spears

A Mother's Gift was a novel released in 2001 and has been adapted into a TV movie, Brave New Girl.

Malacomeles

: Cotoneaster denticulata
Illustration by Pierre Jean François Turpin
from Kunth, Bonpland, and Humboldt'sregnum = Plantae

Maschinenbauanstalt Humboldt

In 1925 the Öllokomotivenbau (Oil Locomotive Works) resulted, in which Humboldt, the Gasmotoren-Fabrik Deutz and the locomotive works of Henschel & Sohn at Kassel had shares.

Measuring the World

The novel re-imagines the lives of German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss and German geographer Alexander von Humboldt – who was accompanied on his journeys by Aimé Bonpland – and their many groundbreaking ways of taking the world's measure, as well as Humboldt's and Bonpland's travels in America and their meeting in 1828.

Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders

The second segment of the film is a recut version of The Devil's Gift, a 1984 film made by the same director.

Ottmar Ette

As early as 1987, Ette's work on Alexander von Humboldt earned him the "Heinz-Maier-Leibnitz" Award from the German Ministry of Culture and the German Research Association DFG.

Peter Schwerdtfeger

Peter Schwerdtfeger currently holds a chair in Theoretical Chemistry at Massey University in Auckland, New Zealand, serves as Director of the Center of Theoretical Chemistry and Physics, member of the Institute for Advanced Study, and the President of the New Zealand Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

Petru Dumitriu

After school in Romania, Dumitriu studied philopsophy at Munich University with a Humboldt scholarship, but his studies were interrupted in 1944 when Romania changed sides in the Second World War.

Philipp Jaffé

In 1862 Jaffé was appointed assistant professor of history at Humboldt University of Berlin, where he lectured on Latin paleography and Roman and medieval chronology.

Rafael Domingo Osle

He was a Humboldt research fellow at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany (1989 and 1995), a visiting fellow at the University of Rome-La Sapienza (1995), and a visiting scholar at the Columbia Law School in New York (2000 and 2009).

Raupenschlepper, Ost

Approximately 23,000 RSO of all versions were produced by Steyr (2,600 pcs), Klöckner-Humboldt-Deutz AG (KHD; 12,500 pcs), Auto Union - Siegmar plant (former Wanderer; 5,600 pcs) and Gräf & Stift (4,500 pcs).

Redway

Redway, California, USA, a census-designated place located in Humboldt County

Rubén Ayala

Born in Humboldt, Las Colonias Department, Santa Fe Province, Ayala played club football for Club Atlético San Lorenzo de Almagro in Argentina where he was part of the team that famously went unbeaten for the whole of the 1972 Nacional championship.

Simon Murphy

Simon J. Murphy, Sr. (1820–1910), millionaire lumberman in Maine, Detroit, and Humboldt County in Northern California

Stephen Bungay

He subsequently studied for a doctorate in philosophy at Oxford and the University of Tübingen in Germany, where he was a Research Fellow of the Humboldt Foundation.

The Nobles

The Simbul's Gift, by Lynn Abbey (paperback, November 1997, ISBN 978-0-7869-0763-2)

The Undertaker's Gift

The Undertaker's Gift is a BBC Books original novel written by Trevor Baxendale and based on the British science fiction television, Doctor Who spin-off series Torchwood and is set after the conclusion of the second series.

Todd Strueby

Todd Kenneth Strueby (born June 15, 1963 in Lanigan, Saskatchewan and raised in Humboldt, Saskatchewan) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey centre who played most of his career in the minor leagues.

White-tailed Kite

Their distribution is patchy, however – they can be seen in the Central Valley and southern coastal areas, open land around Goleta including the Ellwood Mesa Open Space, marshes in Humboldt County, and also around the San Francisco Bay, but elsewhere they are still rare or absent.

William Sweet

He also studied at Carleton University, the University of Manitoba, the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and the Centre Sèvres, (Faculté de Théologie de la Compagnie de Jésus, Paris).


see also