German Student Corps Members - Louis Agassiz, Alois Alzheimer, Prince Maximilian of Baden, William Backhouse Astor, Sr., Friedrich Hecker (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 25. Chapters: Louis Agassiz, Alois Alzheimer, Prince Maximilian of Baden, William Backhouse Astor, Sr., Friedrich Hecker, Hugo Junkers, Gustav Struve, Rudolf Christoph Eucken, Heinrich Hoffmann, Wilhelm von Bode, Karl Allmenroder, Horst Ademeit, Botho zu Eulenburg, Karl Vogt, Karl von Abel, Ludwig Thoma, Asfa-Wossen Asserate, Julius Binder, Rudolf Nebel, Heinrich Albert, Richard Andree, Christian Samuel Weiss, Johann Andreas Wagner, Carl Theodor Albrecht, Julius von Mirbach. Excerpt: Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz (May 28, 1807 - December 14, 1873) was a Swiss paleontologist, glaciologist, geologist and a prominent innovator in the study of the Earth's natural history. He grew up in Switzerland and became a professor of natural history at University of Neuchatel. Later, he accepted a professorship at Harvard University in the United States. Louis Agassiz was born in Motier (now part of Haut-Vully) in the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland. Educated first at home, then spending four years of secondary school in Bienne, he completed his elementary studies in Lausanne. Having adopted medicine as his profession, he studied successively at the universities of Zurich, Heidelberg and Munich; while there he extended his knowledge of natural history, especially of botany. In 1829 he received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at Erlangen, and in 1830 that of doctor of medicine at Munich. Moving to Paris he fell under the tutelage of Alexander von Humboldt and Georges Cuvier, who launched him on his careers of geology and zoology respectively. Previously he had not paid special attention to the study of ichthyology, but it soon became the great focus of his life's work. After the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, Stanford President David Starr Jordan wrote, "Somebody - Dr. Angell, perhaps - remarked that 'Agassiz was great in the abstract but not i...