Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Twenty American Authors (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Twenty American Authors Mrs. Agassiz when preparing the authoritative memoir of her husband. Louis Ayassiz: his Life and Correspondence, found it agreeing perfectly with the proportions of her work to devote the first volume to his European life, ^ the second to his American. He was educated in the Swiss parsonage where he was born May 28. 1807, and which was his home until he was ten years of age, when he was sent to school at Bienne; since he came to America in 1846. it is proper to say that his student and working life was almost exactly halved by the Atlantic. His love of natural history, which showed itself in his childish sports and made him a miniature collector, deepened as his mind matured, and gave him so strong a bent toward university life that he persuaded his parents to postpone their design to establish him in commercial pursuit until he should first spend two additional years at the College of Lausanne. His devotion there to anatomy and kindred studies gave the slight weight that was needed to turn the scale, and at the end of his course he went to the medical school of Zurich, and thence to Heidelberg. From Heidelberg he went to Munich, and here the studies in natural history, which he had been pursuing as collateral to his professional studies, became steadily superior; he found himself, as the saying is, and though he took his degree as doctor of medicine, he never practised - the pursuit of natural history had become his life-work. His first venture in publication, made when he was twenty-one, was a description of the Brazilian fishes brought home by Martius and Spix. It is interesting as illustrating the continuity of his life that nearly forty years afterward he should himself make explorations in Brazilian waters, and should receive an eager letter at the time from old Professor Martins who was still working at Brazilian fauna and flora. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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