Conrad Malte-Brun , 1775-1826, Danish geographer, b. Jutland but later settled in Paris; originally named Malthe Konrad Bruun. He is responsible for the descriptive, readable style that became characteristic of the French school of geography. He wrote an encyclopedic geography of the world, a geography of Poland, and a dictionary of geography. He was secretary of the French Society of Geography, as was his son, Victor Adolphe Malte-Brun, 1816-89, who also wrote extensively on geographical subjects.
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... about the name of the great geographer, Conrad Malte-Brun (1775-1826), is no surprise. Malte-Brun was born in Denmark as Malthe Konrad Bruun ... geography. No doubt Effinger referred to Malte-Brun's six-volume encyclopedia of world geography ...
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... of Spain, 1788; Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, composer, 1788; George Washington, first US President, 1799; Conrad Malte-Brun (Malte Conrad Bruun), geographer, 1826; John Claudius Loudon, botanical writer, 1843; George Hamilton Gordon, fourth ...
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