Letter, 1856 August 24, Dresden, to an unidentified recipient.

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Letter, 1856 August 24, Dresden, to an unidentified recipient.

Sends some of his work for Mr. Agassiz; encloses two articles (by Carus): speech to Goethe's 100th birthday and an essay concerning the so-called Aztecs.

1 p. 22 cm.

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Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873

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Swiss-American zoologist and geologist. Professor of zoology and geology at Harvard University. Louis Agassiz was born in Môtier-en-Vuly, Switzerland. He studied at the universities of Zürich, Erlangen (Ph.D., 1829), Heidelberg, and Munich (M.D., 1830). Agassiz studied medicine briefly but turned to zoology, with a special interest in fishes and fossils, while studying under the French naturalist Cuvier. In 1832 he became professor of natural history at the University of Neuchâtel, Sw...

Carus, Carl Gustav, 1789-1869

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German physiologist and psychologist, distinguished also as an art critic and a landscape painter. From the description of Letter, 1836, Jun. 12, Dresden, Germany, to Baron Frédéric Cuvier, Paris, France. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 35007163 German physician and philosopher. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Dresden, to Mme Ezeckel in Pillnitz, 1863 May 15. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270133370 ...

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (b. August 29, 1749, Free Imperial City of Frankfurt-d. March 22, 1832, Weimar) was a German poet, playwright, novelist, and natural scientist. He is often ranked with Shakespeare and Dante as one of the three most important poets in history. Goethe gained early fame with The Sorrows of Young Werther, published in 1774, but his most famous work is Faust, a poetic drama in two parts....