A Gilded Age baron invited Carl Alwin Schenck to manage his forest at the Biltmore Estate. The decision changed America's landscape. A portrait of Carl Alwin Schenck, the forstmeister whose work at ...
In his native Germany, Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker was feted as the last of a breed long considered extinct in the Anglo–Saxon world: that of the Universalgelehrter, the polymath who roams freely ...