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Henry Guyot| Arnold Henry Guyot |Born||September 28, 1807
Boudevilliers, Canton of Neuchâtel, Switzerland |Died||February
8, 1884 Princeton, New Jersey, United States Guyot was born at
Boudevilliers, near Neuchâtel, Switzerland. He was educated at
Chaux-de-Fonds, then at the college of Neuchâtel. In 1825, he
went to Germany, and resided in Karlsruhe where he met Louis
Agassiz, the beginning of a lifelong friendship. From Karlsruhe
he moved to Stuttgart, where he studied at the gymnasium. He
returned to Neuchâtel in 1827. He determined to enter the
ministry and started at the University of Berlin to attend
lectures. While pursuing his studies, he also attended lectures
on philosophy and natural science. His leisure was spent in
collecting shells and plants, and he received an entrée to the
Berlin Botanical Garden from Humboldt