What kind of work did the Father of Modern Geography do? How did he perceive the field of geography?

Alexander von Humboldt is considered as the father of modern geography.

Explanation:

The period of early 18th and 19th-century geography began to be recognized as discrete discipline starting in Berlin, Paris and then to entire Europe in which the holistic work can be noted is of the Humboldt period who gave cosmos and founder of the sub-field biogeography. His description of distant lands of South America and his travel anecdotes are quite famous, his empirical study on the indigenous people of the new world was the most important work in human geography. Even Darwin was influenced by the writing style and description of lands by humboldt