Charles H. Lange, Carroll L. Riley, and Elizabeth M. Lange point out, for example, the error in the statement of author and editor Charles Lummis, who said that Bandelier's mother was a member of the Russian nobility. Although Marie Senn had gone to Russia as a governess and had met her first husband there, she was not a Russian noble by birth or marriage. A professional man who had studied law at Lausanne, Bandelier's father went to Brazil in 1847 and then immigrated to the United States in 1848, settling in the Swiss community of Highland, Illinois, thirty miles east of Saint Louis, in September. A month after the father's arrival in Highland, Marie, their son Adolph, and the family maid joined him there.
Growing up in a highly literate and multi-lingual community, Bandelier received private tutoring in mineralogy and geology from Dr. J. F. Bernays and was strongly influenced by the career and publications of Baron Alexander von Humboldt, a German naturalist and statesman. In 1854 Bandelier's father entered into a partnership with two other Swiss immigrants, Frederick C. Ryhiner and Morris Huegy, to begin a bank. Bandelier's mother died the next year, and his father's strong influence on him intensified.
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