Аннотация:Louis Agassiz was born and grew up in Switzerland, attending university in Zurich as well as in Heidelberg and Munich.He studied under Georges Cuvier (q.v.) in Paris before accepting a professorship at the College of Neufchatel in 1832.The same year he married Cécile Braun, the sister of one of his friends from Heidelberg.During his fifteen years at Neufchatel, Agassiz travelled all over Europe examining fossil fish for his great Recherches sur les Poissons Fossiles (1833Fossiles ( -1843)).He studied the glaciers of the Swiss Alps, and, detecting traces of glaciers all over Europe, put forward the idea of an 'Ice Age' in 1841.
