Cecile (Braun) Agassiz (abt. 1810 - abt. 1848)

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Biography

Cecile was born about 1810. She was the sister of botanist Alexander Braun and a scientific illustrator.

She married Louis Agassiz in 1833.

She passed away in 1848.

Louis Agassiz wed Cecilie Braun, the sister of a college friend. She was young, very pretty, and quite talented. She produced landscapes, portraits, and detailed illustrations of many of the specimens Agassiz studied. But, coming from an affluent family, she was used to a nicer standard of living than Agassiz could provide. They lived in a small, dark, garden-level apartment where the windows looked out on the feet of passersby. Letters to her parents frequently asked for money, and letters written by Agassiz eventually began to allude to someone who "couldn't be pleased no matter what." After Cecilie left him, children in tow, she wasted away from tuberculosis and died in 1848. ^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ https://www.strangescience.net/agassiz.htm

• Biographical Dictionary of American Educators, Vol. 1, ed. John F. Ohles, 1978, Westport CT/London, Greenwood Press
• Ziegenspeck, Hermann, "Braun, Alexander" in: Neue Deutsche Biographie 2 (1955), S. 548 [Online-Version]; URL: https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/pnd116415576.html#ndbcontent

• https://hls-dhs-dss.ch/de/articles/015920/2018-03-23/