Victor Adolphe Malta-Brown

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Victor Adolphe Malte-Brun (born 25 November 1816) is a French geographer and cartographer, born in Marcoussis (Essonne, France) on 13 July 1889. He was the second son of another French geographer, of Danish origin, co-founder of "Paris" Conrad Malte-Brun's brother, Conradin Malte-Brun (died 1850), was a painter.

Orphaned by his father at the age of 10, he grew up in the reputation of his father. In 1846, Eugène Cortambert, a professor and member of the Geographical Society, published a textbook on geography (Cours de géographie) inspired by the works of Conrad Malte-Brun, in which he wrote that geography is a general picture of nature, humanity and its products. This humanistic vision has convinced Victor to strive for the dedication of modern geography, different from the previous descriptions of individual places on Earth.

In 1851 Victor Adolphe Malte-Brun became a member of the "Parisian" Geographical Society, and in 1852 one of the secretaries of that institution. Later (as before his father), he became general secretary of the Society, who held office in 1860-1867. After graduation he became the first Honorary Secretary General of the Society. From 1852 to 1867 he was the editor of the Bulletin de la Société de géographie, in which he also published more than one hundred articles.

In the years 1851-1855 he published a new edition of his great work, "Outline of the World's Geography" (Précis de géographie universelle).

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