Émile-Félix Gautier or Gauthier (19 October 1864 – 16 January 1940) was a French

geographer A geographer is a physical scientist, social scientist or humanist whose area of study is geography, the study of Earth's natural environment and human society, including how society and nature interacts. The Greek prefix "geo" means "earth" a ...

. Gautier was born in

Clermont-Ferrand Clermont-Ferrand (, ; ; oc, label=Auvergnat (dialect), Auvergnat, Clarmont-Ferrand or Clharmou ; la, Augustonemetum) is a city and Communes of France, commune of France, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes regions of France, region, with a population ...

. His studies focused on northern

Africa Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent, after Asia in both cases. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of Earth's total surface area ...

, especially

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, the

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desert and the territories of

French Africa French Africa includes all the historic holdings of France on the African continent. Françafrique French North Africa * Egypt (1798-1801) * French Algeria (1830–1962) * Protectorate of Tunisia (1881–1956) * Protectorate in Morocco (1 ...

. He also conducted research in the French colony of

Madagascar Madagascar (; mg, Madagasikara, ), officially the Republic of Madagascar ( mg, Repoblikan'i Madagasikara, links=no, ; french: République de Madagascar), is an island country in the Indian Ocean, approximately off the coast of East Africa ...

. He died, aged 75, in

Pontivy Pontivy (; ) is a commune in the Morbihan department in Brittany in north-western France. It lies at the confluence of the river Blavet and the Canal de Nantes à Brest. Inhabitants of Pontivy are called ''Pontivyens'' in French. Map History ...

(Saint-Pierre-de-Quiberon). During his career, he taught classes at the ''École supérieure des lettres'' in

Algiers Algiers ( ; ar, الجزائر, al-Jazāʾir; ber, Dzayer, script=Latn; french: Alger, ) is the capital and largest city of Algeria. The city's population at the 2008 Census was 2,988,145Census 14 April 2008: Office National des Statistiques ...

, and was also a director of education in Madagascar. In 1922 he became a member of the

Académie des sciences d'outre-mer An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of secondary education, secondary or tertiary education, tertiary higher education, higher learning (and generally also research or honorary membershi ...

Works

* ''Madagascar : essai de géographie physique'' (1902) – Madagascar, essay of

physical geography Physical geography (also known as physiography) is one of the three main branches of geography. Physical geography is the branch of natural science which deals with the processes and patterns in the natural environment such as the atmosphere, h ...

. * ''Études d’ethnographie saharienne'', l’Anthropologie XVIII, 1907 – Studies of Saharan

ethnography Ethnography (from Greek ''ethnos'' "folk, people, nation" and ''grapho'' "I write") is a branch of anthropology and the systematic study of individual cultures. Ethnography explores cultural phenomena from the point of view of the subject o ...

. * ''L’Algérie et la métropole'', 1920 – Algeria and the metropolis. * ''Les Territoires du Sud. Description géographique'', Gouvernement Général de l’Algérie, 1922 – The territories of the south, a geographical description. * ''Le Sahara'' (1923: translated as "Sahara, the Great Desert" by Dorothy Ford Mayhew, 1935). * ''L’Islamisation de l’Afrique du Nord. Les siècles obscurs du Moghreb'', 1927 –

Islamization Islamization, Islamicization, or Islamification ( ar, أسلمة, translit=aslamāh), refers to the process through which a society shifts towards the religion of Islam and becomes largely Muslim. Societal Islamization has historically occur ...

of North Africa. Dark Ages of the

Magreb The Maghreb (; ar, الْمَغْرِب, al-Maghrib, lit=the west), also known as the Arab Maghreb ( ar, المغرب العربي) and Northwest Africa, is the western part of North Africa and the Arab world. The region includes Algeria, ...

. * ''Un Siècle de colonisation'' (1930) – A century of colonization. * ''Le Monument de Tin Hinan'' (Annales de l’Académie des sciences coloniales) t. VII, 1934 (with Maurice Reygasse).French Wikisource
(publications) * ''L'Afrique blanche'' (1939) – White Africa. * ''Missions au Sahara'' (with René Chudeau)

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, in

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) 1864 births 1940 deaths French geographers French ethnographers Scientists from Clermont-Ferrand {{france-scientist-stub