Victor-Adolphe Malte-Brun
Illustration — Photograph of Victor Adolphe Malte-Brun, from the Bibliothèque nationale de France Victor Adolphe Malte-Brun (25November 181613July 1889) was a French geographer and cartographer.
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Victor-Adolphe Malte-Brun
Alexandre Quinet · Bibliothèque nationale de France · Public domain
- Born
- 1816 · Paris.
- Died
- 1889 · Marcoussis.
- Nationality
- France
- Occupation
- cartographer · geographer
- Honours
- Knight of the Legion of Honour
- Languages
- French
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Illustration — Photograph of Victor Adolphe Malte-Brun, from the Bibliothèque nationale de France Victor Adolphe Malte-Brun (25November 181613July 1889) was a French geographer and cartographer.
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He was born in Paris, France, the son of Conrad Malte-Brun, another geographer of Danish origin, and founder of the Société de Géographie. After having been a professor of history in several colleges, he devoted himself especially to geographical studies. In 1851, Victor Adolphe Malte-Brun became a member of the Société de Géographie, and quickly rose to be its secretary-general. He was also the principal editor of the Nouvelles Annales des Voyage. He died in Marcoussis in the Essonne département and is buried in the Cimetière du Montparnasse in Paris.
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His name was given to the street in Marcoussis where he once lived. Mount Malte-Brun in New Zealand's Southern Alps was named, by Sir Julius von Haast, after him.
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• Jeunes voyageurs en France (1840) • Destinée de Sir John Franklin dévoilée (1860) • Nouvelles acquisitions des Russes dans l'Asie orientale (1861) • Les États-Unis et le Mexique (1862) • Coup d'œil sur le Yucatan (1864) • Sonora et ses mines (1864) • Canal interocéanique du Darien (1865) • Histoire de Marcoussis (History of Marcoussis) (1867) • Histoire géographique et statistique de l'Allemagne (4to, 1866-'8) • La France illustrée (Illustrated France, volumes I and V, 1882) He also published a revised edition of his father's geography (8 vols., 1852–55).
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