Agassiz

However, others remained valorised such as Louis Agassiz, an advocate of scientific racism, who has an Alpine peak named after him.

The eulogy pronounced on the great zoölogist Agassiz was well deserved.

Both were posed shirtless and photographed from several angles in images commissioned by Harvard biologist Louis Agassiz, whose theories on racial difference were used to support slavery in the U.S.

The 19th-century naturalist and Harvard professor Louis Agassiz commissioned daguerreotype portraits of enslaved people in an attempt to prove their inferiority.

In the mid-19th century, Louis Agassiz, a prominent Harvard professor of zoology and geology, espoused theories concluding, according to the report, that Black people were “at the bottom of a racial hierarchy ordained in nature.”