Jean Brunhes (, 25 October 1869,

Toulouse Toulouse (, ; ; ) is a city in southern France, the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Haute-Garonne department and of the Occitania (administrative region), Occitania region. The city is on the banks of the Garonne, River Garonne, from ...

, France - 25 August 1930,

Boulogne-Billancourt Boulogne-Billancourt (; often colloquially called simply Boulogne, until 1924 Boulogne-sur-Seine, ) is a wealthy and prestigious Communes of France, commune in the western suburbs of Paris, France, located from the Kilometre zero, centre of Paris ...

) was a French

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. His most famous book is ''La géographie humaine'' (''Human Geography''). He was the director of ''

The Archives of the Planet ''The Archives of the Planet'' () was a project undertaken from 1908 to 1931 to photograph human cultures around the world. It was sponsored by French banker Albert Kahn (banker), Albert Kahn and resulted in 183,000 meters of film and 72,000 c ...

'', an international photographic project sponsored by Albert Kahn. He was the father of

Mariel Jean-Brunhes Delamarre Mariel Jean-Brunhes Delamarre (1905–2001), was a French writer, geographer and ethnologist. She became a zealous follower of her famous ethnographer father. Biography Born 13 August 1905 in Fribourg, Switzerland, she was the daughter of the ...

, his daughter and early research partner. ''Ruskin et la Bible: pour servir à l'histoire d'une pensée'' (1901) is a popular book by Jean and Henriette Brunhes.

Bibliography

*Numa Broc, Regards sur la géographie française de la Renaissance à nos jours, Presses universitaires de Perpignan, 1995. *Musée Albert Kahn, Boulogne, Jean Brunhes autour du monde, regards d'un géographe / regards de la géographie, Vilo, Paris, 1993, 348 p. *Jean-Louis Tissier, Brunhes (Jean), in Jacques Julliard, Michel Winock (dir.), Dictionnaire des intellectuels français, Paris, Seuil, 1996, p. 195-196. *Paul Claval, André-Louis Sanguin (éd.), La Géographie française à l'époque classique (1918-1968), L'Harmattan, 1996. *https://books.google.com/books?id=G9ckCwAAQBAJ&dq=jean+brunhes&pg=PA10

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1869 births 1930 deaths Scientists from Toulouse 19th-century French geographers 20th-century French geographers Human geographers {{Geographer-stub