Victor Adolphe Malte-Brun

Victor Adolphe Malte-Brun (b. 1816-July 13, 1889 in Marcoussis ( the Essonne, a suburb of Paris) was a French geographer and cartographer.

It is the son of Conrad Malte-Brun, another geographer, of Danish origin , founder of the Société géographique de Paris.

Victor Adolphe Malta-Brun became a member of the Société géographique de Paris, in 1851, and quickly became the secretary-general of this..

He is buried with the cemetery of Montparnasse in Paris.

Its name was given to a street of the 20e arrondissement of Paris, with a Rue de Marcoussis (precisely the street where it remained).

A mountain of New Zealand, in the New Zealand Alps in South Island also bears its name: Mount Maltebrun (culminating, according to sources', between 3,176 m and 3,199 m). However, nothing says which of the two geographers was honoured by this designation.

Selection of œuvres of Malta-Brun

  • Histoire de Marcoussis (History of Marcoussis) (1867)
  • La France illustrée (Illustrated France, volumes I and V) (1882)




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