Victor Adolphe Malte-Brun

Victor Adolphe Malte -Brun ( born November 25, 1816 in Paris, France, † July 13, 1889 in Marcoussis, France) was a French geographer and cartographer.

Victor Adolphe Malte - Brun 's father was the founder of the Société de Géographie, the French geographer Conrad Malte -Brun Danish origin (actually Malthe Conrad Bruun ), which he had already lost at the age of ten years.

1851 Malte - Brun was a member of the Société de Géographie and quickly became its general secretary.

He is buried at the Cimetière Montparnasse Paris.

Honors

  • The street in which he had lived in Marcoussis, was named after him rue Malte -Brun.
  • The Mount Malte Brun, a mountain in New Zealand, is named after him or his father.

Bibliography (excerpt)

  • Histoire de Marcoussis ( "History of Marcoussis "; 1867)
  • La France illustrée ( " France in pictures ", two volumes and an atlas in 1853, Volumes I and V and Atlas 1882; Éditions Rouff )
  • L' Allemagne illustrée ( " Germany in Pictures"; five volumes from 1885 to 1888; Éditions Rouff )
  • Les jeunes voyageurs en France ou Description du sol et pittoresque of curiosités de ce pays ( " The young travelers in France or Picturesque Description of the soil and of the strangeness of the country"; 1841)
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