Humboldt y el Colonialismo

Authors

  • Frank Holl

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18443/27

Keywords:

1799-1804, Kritik am Kolonialismus

Abstract

Abstract

During his American expedition Humboldt grappled intensively with the iniquities of colonialism. In the year 1803, for example, he noted „that the idea of a colony is itself an immoral idea, this idea of a land which is obliged to pay dues to another country.“ The colonial powers, wrote Humboldt, support intolerance, repression and slavery. However, he did not express his criticism in public during the expedition but entrusted it only to good friends and his diary. The lecture treats Humboldt's political stance during the expedition, based on human rights and his communicative role as a research traveller who, having returned to Europe, made his criticism public. Central to the lecture are examples of Humboldt's criticism of representatives of the colonial system. These make clear which important impulses the researcher gave to the independence movement and to the politicians of the young American states.

Author Biography

Frank Holl

Frank Holl nació en 1956, en Heidelberg, Alemania; es germanista, historiador y periodista. En 1993 obtuvo el grado de doctor en filosofía con la tesis doctoral „Producción y distribución de la literatura científica. El físico Max Born y su editor Ferdinand Springer, 1913 - 1970“ („Premio Wilhelm Dettmering“), en la Universidad de Múnich. Desde 1994 está a cargo de la concepción y organización de una serie de exposiciones sobre los viajes de Alexander von Humboldt por América Latina, por encargo del Instituto Goethe en Múnich, el Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores y la Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland en Bonn (Centro de Arte y Exposiciónes de la República Federal de Alemania) y Instituciones Latinomericanas, en México 1997, Cuba 1997-1998, Venezuela 1999, Berlín (Casa de las Culturas del Mundo) 1999, Bonn (Centro de Arte y Exposiciónes de la República Federal de Alemania) 1999-2000, Colombia 2001, y Ecuador 2001. Entre otros escribió artículos para National Geographic. Trabaja como científico, curador y periodista libre.

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Published

2021-11-02

How to Cite

Holl, F. (2021). Humboldt y el Colonialismo . HiN - Alexander Von Humboldt in the Net. International Review for Humboldt Studies, 3(04), 87–95. https://doi.org/10.18443/27

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Vol. 3 No. 04 (2002)

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Copyright (c) 2002 Frank Holl

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