Biography from Cyclopaedia
of American Literature (1866)
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from Earth and Man
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In 1855, Arnold Henry Guyot was
appointed Professor of Physical Geography [at Princeton College]. This
eminent naturalist was born in Switzerland in 1807. He was early
aquainted with Agassiz, and associated with him in the study of natural
history. He studied theology for a while at Berlin, but his scientific
tastes determined his future career.
He made profound and laborious
investigations into the geology of the Alps, in reference, particularly
to the transport of boulders, the results of which were published in
Paris in 1848. He was in the mean time Professor of History of
Neufchatel. The unsettled condition of the country in the political
revolutions of the time induced him to emigrate to the United States.
He came to Boston, and in the winter of
1848-9 delivered a course of
lectures in the French language on the relations between physical
geography and history, which were translated by Professor Felton, and
collected into a volume, entitled, Earth
and Man (Boston, 1849). Mr
Guyot, subsequently, was much engaged in a course of tours for
scientific investigation through New England, New York, and North
Carolina, and in the delivery of lectures, under the direction of the
Massachusetts Board of Education, in the State Normal
Schools. He has been also employed by the Smithsonian Institution in
the organization of a series of meteorological observations.
Text from: Cyclopaedia
of American Literature:
Embracing Personal and Critical Notices of Authors, and and selections
from their writings. From the earliest period to the present day; with
portraits, autographs, and other illustrations,
by Evert
A(ugustus) Duyckinck, published by C. Scribner (1866)
Image of illustrations from Guyot's book Earth and Man (source)
