New to the market and of an extraordinary quality – that accounts for the 28 objects from a private collection from Luxembourg that will be auctioned by Ketterer Kunst on 14 May, 2013.

But the credit goes to the well-known academician, Wilhelm Von Humboldt. He had started a doctoral degree-awarding institute around 1810. It could not take off as desired in the so-called old world.

In July 1799, the 29-year-old Prussian naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt ... were drawn to Humboldt’s literary descriptions of his travels, Darwin used his ideas and proto-evolutionist ...