Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm von, an eminent statesman and philologist, born at Potsdam, elder brother of the preceding; represented Prussia at Rome and Vienna, but devoted himself chiefly to literary and scientific pursuits; wrote on politics and æsthetics as well as philology, and corresponded with nearly all the literary grandees of Germany (1767‒1835).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Humboldt, Friedrich Heinrich Alex., Baron von * Hume, David