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Article: Jaccard, Auguste
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- Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
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Jaccard, Auguste
(
b
.Culliairy, Neuch.
â
tel, Switzerland,
6
July 1833;d. Le Locle, Neuch
â
tel, Switzerland,
5
January 1895)
geology, paleontology
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Auguste Jaccard came from a strongly Protestant family; his parents belonged to the Ma
ā
hrische Br
ü
community. His father made music boxes and was a small farmer. Hoping to better themselves financially the family resettled in 1840 in Ste. Croix, where Auguste attended the village school. In 1845 the family moved to Le Locle. The father was by now pursuing the watchmaker
’
s trade, and Auguste helped him in this whillh continuing with his schoolling.
The revolutionary ideas and political events of 1845-1848, in which ...
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