Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz

American educator, naturalist, writer

Date of Birth: 05-Dec-1822

Place of Birth: Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Date of Death: 27-Jun-1907

Profession: naturalist, writer, biographer, philosopher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz (pseudonym, Actaea; Boston, December 5, 1822 – Arlington, June 27, 1907) was an American educator, naturalist, writer, and the co-founder and first president of Radcliffe College.
A researcher of natural history, she was an author and illustrator of natural history texts as well as a co-author of natural history texts with her husband, Louis Agassiz, and her stepson Alexander Agassiz.Agassiz accompanied her husband on his journey to Brazil in 1865-6 and on the Hassler expedition in 1871-2; of the second, she wrote an account for the Atlantic Monthly.
She published A First Lesson in Natural History (Boston, 1859) and edited Geological Sketches (1866).