Augustin Bernard

Augustin Alexis Bernard (1865–1947) was a French colonial geographer and historian.

Life

Bernard was born on 26 August 1865 in Chaumont-sur-Tharonne (Loir-et-Cher) on 26 August 1865. He studied at the University of Paris, graduating Licentiate of Letters (1883), Licentiate of Law (1887), and Agrégé of History and Geography (1889).[1] After briefly teaching at the Lycée of Lorient he wrote a doctoral thesis on Adam of Bremen (graduating Doctor of Letters in 1895).[1]

He became lecturer on African geography at the École supérieure des lettres d'Alger in 1894 and professor in 1896. In 1902 he was appointed to a lectureship in Paris on the Geography and Colonization of the Peoples of North Africa[2] that had been created specifically for him, becoming a professor in 1920.[1]

He died in Bourbon-l'Archambault (Allier) on 29 December 1947.[1]

Publications

  • L'Archipel de la Nouvelle Calédonie (1894)
  • with Emile Ficheur, Les Régions Naturelles de l'Algérie (1906)
  • Les Confins algéro-marocains (1911)

Honours and awards

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Bruno Delmas (2013). "Bernard, Augustin Alexis". Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques.
  2. ^ "Initials and names of contributors". Encyclopaedia Britannica. Vol. 1 (14 ed.). 1930. p. xxxv.
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