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A Short Biography of Louis Agassiz

Author Name:

Louis Agassiz

Born As:

Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz

Other Names:

Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz

Born:

28 May 1807

Died:

14 Dec 1873




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Zoologist, geologist and glaciologist                          
Selected Works:

Recherches sur les poissons fossiles - 1833-1843
History of the Freshwater Fishes of Central Europe - 1839-1842
Etudes sur les glaciers - 1840
Etudes critiques sur les mollusques fossiles - 1840-1845
Nomenclator Zoologicus - 1842-1846
Monographie des poissons fossiles du Vieux Gres Rouge, ou Systeme Devonien - Old Red Sandstone des Iles Britanniques et de Russie - 1844-1845
Bibliographia Zoologiae et Geologiae - 1848
- with AA Gould Principles of Zoology for the use of Schools and Colleges - Boston, 1848
Lake Superior: Its Physical Character, Vegetation and Animals, compared with those of other and similar regions - 1850
Natural History of the United States - Boston: Little, Brown, 1847-1862
Geological Sketches - - Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1866
A Journey in Brazil - 1868
De l'espèce et de la classification en zoologie - Essay on classification - 1869
Geological Sketches - Second Series - 1876
Essay on Classification, by Louis Agassiz - 1962.                          
The husband of educator Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz.                          
Doctor of Philosophy at Erlangen - 1829 
Doctor of Medicine at Munich - 1830