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On 4/5 September we submitted our petition personally or by mail. Since we are in need of support as long as the various bodies politic have not yet formulated their answers to our petition, we shall - for the time being - continue to collect signatures.
On 28th May 2007 was commemorated the 200th birthday of the Swiss naturalist Louis Agassiz (1807-1873), both in Switzerland and worldwide. However, Agassiz was not only an influential glaciologist, but also an influential racist and a pioneering thinker of apartheid. To make this fact known, the campaign "De-mounting Louis Agassiz" has been launched, suggesting to take his mountain away from Agassiz (thus "de-mount-ing" him) and henceforth to call the Agassizhorn (3946 metres above sea-level) on the boundary between the cantons of Wallis and Berne, named after him in the 1840ies, "Rentyhorn". Renty was a slave from the Congo on a South Carolina plantation, whose daguerrotype picture was commissioned by Louis Agassiz in order to "scientifically prove the inferiority of the black race".

More about the campaign "De-mounting Louis Agassiz": http://www.louverture.ch/AGASSIZ.html


PETITION

to the Swiss government, the two Houses of Parliament, the cantonal governments of Berne and Valais, the communal authorities of Grindelwald, Guttannen und Fieschertal as well as to both executive board and advisory board of UNESCO's world natural heritage area "Jungfrau-Aletsch-Bietschhorn":

We, the undersigned of this petition, demand that the Agassizhorn (3942 m, BE/VS) be renamed "Rentyhorn", thus setting a significant international example in the fight against racism and for the commemoration of slavery as a crime against humanity.



21.8.2008 / Sasha Huber has just driven the plate for Renty into the snows of the Agassizhorn. Photo: Siro Micheroli
Louis Agassiz (1807-1873)
Renty (March, 1850)
Agassizhorn (3946 meters above sealevel)
Photo: Siro Micheroli