Louis Agassiz
1807 to 1873
10 documented presences
10 places
Quo Fuit places 10 dated presences for Louis Agassiz across 10 places, from 1818 to 1873. Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.
Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz (May 28, 1807 – December 14, 1873) was a Swiss-born American biologist and geologist who is recognized as a scholar of Earth's natural history.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
Where Louis Agassiz was documented, and when
1818year
Bienneattested
“Louis Agassiz was educated at home until he spent four years at secondary school in Bienne, which he entered in 1818 and completed his elementary studies in Lausanne.”
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1818year
Lausanneattested
“Louis Agassiz was educated at home until he spent four years at secondary school in Bienne, which he entered in 1818 and completed his elementary studies in Lausanne.”
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November 1832month
University of Neuchâtelattested
“In November 1832, Agassiz was appointed professor of natural history at the University of Neuchâtel, at a salary of about US$400 and declined brilliant offers in Paris because of the leisure for private study that that position afforded…”
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November 1832month
Parisattested
“In November 1832, Agassiz was appointed professor of natural history at the University of Neuchâtel, at a salary of about US$400 and declined brilliant offers in Paris because of the leisure for private study that that position afforded…”
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1834year
Englandattested
“Before Agassiz's first visit to England in 1834, Hugh Miller and other geologists had brought to light the remarkable fossil fish of the Old Red Sandstone of the northeast of Scotland.”
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1834year
Lyme Regisattested
“Agassiz was grateful for the help that the women gave him in examining fossil fish specimens during his visit to Lyme Regis in 1834.”
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1863year
Harvardattested
“In 1863, Agassiz's daughter Ida married Henry Lee Higginson, who later founded the Boston Symphony Orchestra and was a benefactor to Harvard and other schools.”
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1873year
Buzzards Bay (bay)attested
“In 1873, the private philanthropist John Anderson gave Agassiz the island of Penikese, in Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts (south of New Bedford), and presented him with $50,000 to endow it permanently as a practical school of natural science…”
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1873year
Cambridge, Massachusettsattested
“Agassiz died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1873 and was buried on the Bellwort Path at Mount Auburn Cemetery, joined later by his wife.”
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1873year
Mount Auburn Cemeteryattested
“Agassiz died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1873 and was buried on the Bellwort Path at Mount Auburn Cemetery, joined later by his wife.”
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Places Louis Agassiz is documented in
Cambridge, Massachusetts1 presence · 1873England1 presence · 1834Harvard1 presence · 1863Lausanne1 presence · 1818Paris1 presence · 1832
Bienne1 presence · 1818
Buzzards Bay (bay)1 presence · 1873
Lyme Regis1 presence · 1834
Mount Auburn Cemetery1 presence · 1873
University of Neuchâtel1 presence · 1832
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1819 to 1820period
Brazilmentioned
“In 1819 to 1820, the German biologists Johann Baptist von Spix and Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius undertook an expedition to Brazil.”
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1829year
University of Erlangenmentioned
“In 1829, he received the degree of doctor of philosophy at Erlangen and, in 1830, that of doctor of medicine at Munich.”
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1829year
Munichmentioned
“In 1829, he received the degree of doctor of philosophy at Erlangen and, in 1830, that of doctor of medicine at Munich.”
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1833year
Neuchâtelmentioned
“In 1833, he married Cecile Braun, the sister of his friend Alexander Braun and established his household at Neuchâtel.”
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24 July 1837exact date
Neuchâtelmentioned
“On 24 July 1837, in his speech at the annual meeting of the Swiss Academy of Natural Sciences in Neuchâtel, which he chaired, he presented this new theory, although a lecture on fossil fish was expected.”
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1846year
Bostonmentioned
“With the aid of a grant of money from the king of Prussia, Agassiz crossed the Atlantic in the autumn of 1846 to investigate the natural history and geology of North America and to deliver a course of lectures on "The Plan of Creation as…”
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1846year
Switzerlandmentioned
“In 1846, still married to Cecilie, who remained with their three children in Switzerland, Agassiz met Elizabeth Cabot Cary at a dinner.”
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1847year
Harvard Universitymentioned
“Agassiz's engagement for the Lowell Institute lectures precipitated the establishment in 1847 of the Lawrence Scientific School at Harvard University, with Agassiz as its head.”
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25 April 1850exact date
Bostonmentioned
“The ceremony took place on April 25, 1850, in Boston, Massachusetts at King's Chapel.”
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1852year
Charlestown, Massachusettsmentioned
“In 1852, he accepted a medical professorship of comparative anatomy at Charlestown, Massachusetts, but he resigned in two years.”
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1857year
Cambridge, Massachusettsmentioned
“By 1857, Agassiz was so well-loved that his friend Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote "The Fiftieth Birthday of Agassiz" in his honor and read it at a dinner given for Agassiz by the Saturday Club in Cambridge.”
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August 1857month
Museum of Natural History, Parismentioned
“In August 1857, Agassiz was offered the chair of palaeontology in the Museum of Natural History, Paris, which he refused.”
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30 November 1860exact date
Bostonmentioned
“On November 30, 1860, Agassiz's daughter Pauline was married to Quincy Adams Shaw (1825–1908), a wealthy Boston merchant and later a benefactor to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.”
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April 1865month
Brazilmentioned
“In April 1865, he led the Thayer Expedition to Brazil.”
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1866year
August 1866month
Documented at the same place, the same year
Miguel I of PortugalEngland · 1834Charles-Valentin AlkanEngland · 1834Frédéric ChopinParis · 1832Édouard ManetParis · 1832Jean-François ChampollionParis · 1832Fromental HalévyParis · 1832
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