Antoine Bailly (4 July 1944 – 26 June 2021) was a French-born Swiss geographer. He worked as a professor of geography in France, Canada, and Switzerland. He held a doctoral degree from

Paris-Sorbonne University Paris-Sorbonne University (also known as Paris IV; french: Université Paris-Sorbonne, Paris IV) was a public research university in Paris, France, active from 1971 to 2017. It was the main inheritor of the Faculty of Humanities of the Universit ...

, as well as degrees from the

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and the

University of Franche-Comté The University of Franche-Comté (UFC) is a pluridisciplinary public French university located in Besançon, Franche-Comté, with decentralized campuses in Belfort, Montbéliard, Vesoul and Lons-le-Saunier. It is a founding member of the comm ...

Biography

Bailly was the co-author of over 30 books and more than 300 articles in the fields of geography and regional science. He drew inspiration from

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, and and was one of the pioneers of geographical representation and regional medicometrics. He was a co-founder of the École suisse de nouvelle géographie alongside

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and Claval. Bailly received the Founder's Medal from the

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, the highest distinction in regional science, in 2008. On 6 October 2011, he was awarded the Vautrin Lud Prize as part of the . He was given a doctor honoris causa from Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, the

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, the

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, and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. In 2000, he was made a Knight of the

Ordre national du Mérite The Ordre national du Mérite (; en, National Order of Merit) is a French order of merit with membership awarded by the President of the French Republic, founded on 3 December 1963 by President Charles de Gaulle. The reason for the order's estab ...

. In 2021, he was nominated for membership into the

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. Antoine Bailly died on 26 June 2021 at the age of 76.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bailly, Antoine Swiss geographers 1944 births 2021 deaths Paris-Sorbonne University alumni University of Pennsylvania alumni University of Franche-Comté alumni Members of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Recipients of the Vautrin Lud International Geography Prize Knights of the Ordre national du Mérite People from Belfort