Agassiz, Louis

Life Span
to
Full name
Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz
Place of Birth
Fribourg, Switzerland
Burial Place
Cambridge, MA
Birth Date Certainty
Exact
Death Date Certainty
Exact
Gender
Male
Race
White
Origins
Free State
Education
Other
Other Education
Erlangen and Munich Universities
Occupation
Educator
Scientist or Inventor
Relation to Slavery
White non-slaveholder
Date Event
Louis Agassiz donates his collections to the new Museum of Comparative Zoology in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Nathaniel Hawthorne is buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord, Massachusetts
Date Title
Recollection by Henry Lee Higginson of the Battle of Aldie, June 17, 1863
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