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Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Chapter 1 : 1807 -1827 : to Aet. 20 . (search)
Chapter 1: 1807-1827: to Aet. 20.
Birthplace.
influence of his mother.
early love of natural History.
boyish occupations.
domestic education.
first school.
vacations.
commercial life renounced.
College of Lausanne.
choice of profession.
medical school of Zurich.
life and studies there.
University of Heidelbuis.
Courageous, industrious, and discreet, he pursues honorably and vigorously his aim, namely, the degree of Doctor of Medicine and Surgery.
In the spring of 1827 Agassiz fell ill of a typhus fever prevalent at the university as an epidemic.
His life was in danger for many days.
As soon as he could be moved, Braun took hiur new discoveries.
Have you finished your essay on the physiology of plants, and what do you make of it? . . .
Braun to Agassiz. Carlsruhe, Whitsuntide, Monday, 1827.
. . .I am in Carlsruhe, and as the package has not gone yet, I add a note.
I have been analyzing and comparing all sorts of plants in our garden to-day, a
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Chapter 2 : 1827 -1828 : Aet. 20 -21 . (search)
Chapter 2: 1827-1828: Aet. 20-21.
Arrival in Munich.
lectures.
relations with the professors.
Schelling, Martius, Oken, Dollinger.
relations with fellow-students.
the little Academy.
plans for traveling.
advice from his parents.
vacation journey.
Tri-Centennial Durer festival at Nuremberg.
Agassiz accepted with delight his friend's proposition, and toward the end of October, 1827, he and Braun left Carlsruhe together for the University of Munich.
His first letter to his brother is given in full, for though it contains crudities at which the writer himself would have smiled in after life, it is interesting as showing what was the knowledge possessed in those days by a clever, well-informed student of natural history.
To his brother Auguste. Munich, November 5, 1827.
. . . At last I am in Munich.
I have so much to tell you that I hardly know where to begin.
To be sure that I forget nothing, however, I will give things in their regular sequence.
First,
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Chapter 3 : 1828 -1829 : Aet. 21 -22 . (search)
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Chapter 4 : 1829 -1830 : Aet. 22 -23 . (search)
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Chapter 9 : 1837 -1839 : Aet. 30 -32 . (search)