Victor Adolphe Malte-Brun
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Victor Adolphe Malte-Brun (b. 1816-July 13, 1889) in Marcoussis (the Essonne, a suburb of Paris) was a French geographer and cartographer.
He is the son of Conrad Malte-Brun, another geographer, of Danish origin, founder of the Société géographique de Paris.
Victor Adolphe Malte-Brun in 1851 became a member of the Société géographique de Paris, and quickly rose to be its secretary-general.
He is buried in the cemetery of Montparnasse in Paris.
His name was given to a street of the 20e arrondissement of Paris, the Rue de Marcoussis, which still exists today.
A mountain of New Zealand, in the New Zealand Alps on South Island also bears his name: Mount Maltebrun (culminating, according to sources', between 3,176 m and 3,199 m). However, nowhere it is said which of the two geographers was to be honoured by this namegiving.
Selection of œuvres of Malte-Brun:
- Histoire de Marcoussis (History of Marcoussis) (1867)
- La France illustrée (Illustrated France, volumes I and V) (1882)fr:Victor Adolphe Malte-Brun