“The Humboldt penguin, the Humboldt squid, and more than a hundred other animal species; Humboldt’s Lily, Humboldt’s Schomburgkia, and three hundred other plant species; … Humboldt Limestone, Humboldt Oolite, the Humboldt Formation, the Humboldt Current; … Humboldt Peak, and Humboldt ranges in China, South Africa, and Antarctica; … four Humboldt counties and thirteen Humboldt towns in North America alone, the Humboldt crater and Mare Humboldtianum on the moon.” So who was this man?