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May 28, 1807
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December 14, 1873
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Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz
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00000001209926580
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OL3305005A0
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Louis Agassiz (born Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz) was born on May 28, 1807, in Haut-Vully, Switzerland. He was a physician, geologist, and biologist holding citizenship in both the United States and Switzerland. Agassiz was educated at several institutions, including the University of Zurich, Heidelberg University, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, and the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.
His doctoral advisor was Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius while Frederic Ward Putnam was one of his doctoral students. Louis Agassiz had two children, Alexander Agassiz and Pauline Agassiz Shaw. He fathered Alexander Agassiz.
Agassiz passed away on December 14, 1873, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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