Malte-brun, Conrad
Related Category: Geography: Biographies
(kôn´rä
th mäl´tə-br
n´´, Fr. mältə-brôN´), 1775–1826, Danish geographer, b. Jutland but later settled in Paris; originally named Malthe Konrad Bruun. He is responsible for the descriptive, readable style that became characteristic of the French school of geography. He wrote an encyclopedic geography of the world, a geography of Poland, and a dictionary of geography. He was secretary of the French Society of Geography, as was his son,
Victor Adolphe Malte-Brun, 1816–89, who also wrote extensively on geographical subjects.
