1: Cecilia Braun (1809-1848) in 1833 ; 2: Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz (1822-1907) née Cary naturalist/teacher in 1850
3. Alexander Emanuel Agassiz (1835-1910) ; Ida Olympe Frederika (1837-?) ; Pauline (?-?) ;
1807 in Môtier-en-Vuly, Haut-Vully, Fribourg
1873
Cambridge, Massachusetts
parson Agassiz
Rose (mother) ; sisters Cécile & Olympe ; brother Auguste ; son-in-law Henry Lee Higginson philanthropist (1834-1919) ; merchant Quincy Adams Shaw
medicine at universities of Zurich, Heidelberg, Munich, and Erlangen
Switzerland
Louis Agassiz: Hist. nat. poissons d'eau douce (1845) ; Recherches sur les poissons fossiles (1833-45) ; Karl Christoph Vogt: Anatomie des Salmones (1845) ;
Alexander von Humboldt ; Georges Cuvier ; Lord Francis Egerton ; British Association ; founder of the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology
lithographer Sonrel ; lithographer Nicolet ; lithographer Cazenave ; botanist and traveller Johann Baptist von Spix ; Eduard Desor ; Amanz Gressly ; artist -> Carl Vogt ; artist -> Joseph Dinkel ; artist -> Cecile Braun ; artist -> Cécile S. Agassiz ; artist -> Rödler ; engineer -> Johannes Wild (1814-1894) ; geologist Arnold [Henri] Guyot (1807-1884) ; geologist [Pierre Jean] Edouard Désor (1811-1882) ;
fossil, geological, paleontological, ichthyological, and zoological drawing and painting ;
L. A.: Methods of study in natural history, Atlantic Monthly 9,1 (1862): 1-13 ; S. Scudder: in the laboratory with Agassiz, Every Sunday 6, April 4, 1874: 369-70 ; L. Cooper: L.A. as a Teacher - Illustrative Extracts on his Method of Instruction, Ithaca 1917 ; J. D. Teller: L. A., Scientist and Teacher (Ohio 1947) ; E. Lurie: L. A., a Life in Science (Chicago 1960) ; Nissen: Zoolog. Buchillustration 1969/78 ; Marcou: Life of J. L. R. A. 2011 ; Davidson 2008: 48 ; Neal Lerner: Drawing to learn science. Legacies of Agassiz. Technical Writing and Communication 37, 4 (2007): 379-94, esp. pp. 379-83 ;
L.A. was born in Switzerland and professor of zoology at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachussetts, USA from 1848 until his death in 1873.
Further places of activity: France & USA.
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