Albert Ronsin (20 July 1928 – 2 July 2007) was a 20th-century French scholar, historian, librarian, and curator in Saint-Dié-des-Vosges.

Historian

He undertook historical research, especially about the

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. He was particularly interested in the history of the name ''America'' given by

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to the continent that Amerigo Vespucci passed through and described. He studied globes and

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s of the early sixteenth, including Johannes Schöner globe created by Johann Schoener and Waldseemüller's maps. He also studied the history of the (''Gymnasium Vosagense''), a cultural and scientific association founded circa 1500 in Saint-Dié and from which came many humanists, including

Matthias Ringmann Matthias Ringmann (1482–1511), also known as Philesius Vogesigena was an Alsatian German humanist scholar and cosmographer. Along with cartographer Martin Waldseemüller, he is credited with the first documented usage of the word America, on ...

and .

Works

*2006: ''Le nom de l'Amérique, l'invention des chanoines et savants de Saint-Dié'', Éditions La Nuée bleue, Strasbourg *1992: ''Découverte et baptême de l'Amérique'', Éditions Georges LePape, Montréal : 1979 (épuisé); réédition revue et augmentée, Éditions de l'Est *1991: ''La fortune d'un nom : America, baptême de l'Amérique à Saint-Dié-les-Vosges'', Éditions Jérôme Millon, Grenoble *1990: ''Les Vosgiens célèbres: dictionnaire biographique illustré'', Éditions Gérard Louis *1984: ''Répertoire bibliographique des livres imprimés en France au XVIIe siècle''. Lorraine et Trois-évêchés, Éditions Koerner, Baden-Baden. *1979: ''Propositions pour une nouvelle structure des médiathèques publiques en France'', Éditions Médiathèques publiques n°49, January–March. *1969: ''Saint-Dié-les-Vosges 669-1969'', Éditions Publicité Moderne, Nancy. He also published more than a hundred essays, notes and articles in various journals, annals, bulletins and historical, scientific and economic works.Albert Ronsin's bibliography on EcriVosges
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References

External links

Biographie d'Albert Ronsin
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ronsin, Albert French librarians French curators 20th-century French historians Knights of the Ordre national du Mérite Chevaliers of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres 1928 births Writers from Blois 2007 deaths