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Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Chapter 1 1807 1827 20 . (search)
Chapter 1: 1807-1827: to Aet. 20.
Birthplace.
influence of his mother.
early love of natural History.
boyish occupations.
domestic education.
first school.
vacations.
commercial life renounced.
College of Lausanne.
choice of profession.
medical school of Zurich.
life and studies there.
University of Heidelberg.
studies interrupted by illness.
return to Switzerland.
occupations during convalescence.
Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz was born May 28, 1807, at the village of Motier, on the Lake of Morat.
His father, Louis Rodolphe Agassiz, was a clergyman; his mother, Rose Mayor, was the daughter of a physician whose home was at Cudrefin, on the shore of the Lake of Neuchatel.
The parsonages in Switzerland are frequently pretty and picturesque.
That of Motier, looking upon the lake and sheltered by a hill which commands a view over the whole chain of the Bernese Alps, was especially so. It possessed a vineyard large enough to add something in good years to t
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Index. (search)