Pierre Jean Edouard (Edouard) Desor
1811–82
German-born geologist. Secretary and assistant to Louis Agassiz in Neuchâtel from 1837. Joined Agassiz in America in 1848. Returned to Switzerland in 1852. Professor of geology at Neuchâtel. Founder and first president of the Société d’histoire de Neuchâtel, 1866. President of the International Congress of Anthropology and Prehistoric Archaeology, 1866. Presided over the council of the Academy of Neuchâtel. Member of the Commission for the Geological Map of Switzerland. Involved in both regional and national government.
Sources
Bulletin de la Société des sciences naturelles de Neuchâtel 7 (1864–7): 153, 260
Dictionnaire historique & biographique de la Suisse.
Bibliography
Dictionnaire historique & biographique de la Suisse. Under the direction of Marcel Godet et al. 7 vols. and supplement. Neuchâtel: Administration du Dictionnaire Historique & Biographique de la Suisse. 1921–34.
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