Dec 22, 2021
It probably has a longer history, with its roots dating back to at least the 16th century (projective geometry of Desargues and analytic geometry of Descartes). Klein certainly had a fundamental contribution. Though I am not an expert, I think today by “algebraic geometry” one mainly refers to the further abstraction developed in the 1960s by Serre and Grothendieck (constructions such as sheaves and schemes).