Lucien Louis Joseph Gallois (21 February 1857 – 21 March 1941) was a French
geographer
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born in
Metz
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.
He was a student at the
École Normale Supérieure
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* an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by secondary education establishments (collège and lycée)
* École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing in région Île-de-France
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in Paris, where he took classes from
Paul Vidal de la Blache #REDIRECT Paul Vidal de La Blache
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(1845–1918). In 1884 he received his
agrégation, later becoming a lecturer at the
Sorbonne
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* Sorbonne (building), historic building in Paris, which housed the University of Paris and is now shared among multiple universities.
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(1893). From 1898 to 1907 he was a professor of
geography
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at the École Normale Supérieure, and afterwards a professor at the Sorbonne, where he remained until his retirement in 1927.
Gallois made major contributions to the ''
Annales de géographie
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History
The ''Annales de Géographie'' was founded in 1891 by Paul Vi ...
'', a geographical journal that he co-founded with his mentor, Paul Vidal de la Blache. Following the death of Vidal de la Blache in 1918, he assumed directorship of ''Géographie universelle'', a major project involving
regional geography of the entire world.
Gallois had a keen interest in the fields of
cartography
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and
history of geography
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, as made evident by an influential 1890 study on German geographers of the
Renaissance
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titled ''Les géographes allemands de la Renaissance''. Another noted publication of his was ''Régions naturelles et noms de pays: Étude sur la région Parisienne'' (Natural regions and country names: A study of the Paris region).
References
* "This article is based on a translation of an equivalent article at the
French Wikipedia
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".
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French geographers
Scientists from Metz
1857 births
1941 deaths
Academic staff of the University of Paris
École Normale Supérieure alumni
Academic staff of the École Normale Supérieure
Recipients of the Cullum Geographical Medal