Louis Agassiz

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1807-1873
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"Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence", edited and published in 1890 after Louis's death by his wife, Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, contains a detailed account of his life. It consists of a collection of letters, and on page 144 is an autobiographical account of his studies in Zurich, Heidelberg, and Munich. The book is available in full online, see http://books.google.com/books?id=ifwoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA144#v=onepage&q&f=true
Agassiz went first to school in Lausanne, where he studied under Professor Chavannes, Then Louis studied Medicine in Zurich for 2 years, under the guidance of Professors Schinz and Hirzel. Next he went to Heidelberg, where he attended the lectures of Leuckart in zoology, and those of Bronn in paleontology. In 1827 he went to Munich, where he studied for 4 years under Professors Schelling (philosophy), Oken, Schubert, and Wagler (zoölogy), Döllinger (anatomy and physiology), Martius and Zuccarini (botany), and Fuchs and Kobell (mineralogy) As he was living in Döllinger's house he received personal instruction from Döllinger in the use of the microscope, and methods of embryological investigation. He also singles out Oken as teacher he admired. In his letters he also mentions Martius, with whom he collaborated on his collection of fishes he brought back from a trip to Brazil. It was also Martius who encouraged him to get a D.Phil degree in Erlangen; according to Agassiz that was because it would look good on the title page of a book on Brazilian fishes they were publishing together. Agassiz never studied in Erlangen: he only took exams there, and was awarded a D.Phil degree, 1829.
Andreas Röschlaub is mentioned as Praeses at Agassiz' Med.Dr. thesis defense in Munich, 1830. In: 'Life, letters, and works of Louis Agassiz, Volume 2', http://books.google.com/books?id=6eoQAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA258#v=onepage&q&f=true it says the following:
1830. - 4. Dissertatio inauguralis: De taxi et syntaxi morphomatum telae corneae dictae. 4to, Monachii, 1830. This title is in de centre of the second page. On the first page used as a cover we read : Ad Disputationem publicam [under the presidency of Roeslaub]. Pro summis in medicina chirurgia et arte obstetricia honoribus rite obtinendis a praenobili, clarissimo et doctissimo viro ac domino Lodovico Agassiz, A.A.LL. Philos. Doct. Urbigenensi, Helveto, Die III, Aprilis MDCCCXXX, habedam, etc
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