— MegatheriumSociety.org is a VIEWER-PARTICIPANT WEBSITE.Click on the link for information on what that means. Paleontologist, geologist, and glaciologist Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz was born in Môtier, in the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland, on 28 May 1807. He spent his formative years attending school first at home, then at the secondary school at Bienne, and ...