Balbi Adrian

Balbi, Adrian, born at Venice in 1782, and while still young appointed professor there of geography and natural philosophy. In 1820 he went to Portugal and wrote a statistical work on that country, which brought him into notice. In 1826 he published his Geographical Atlas, embracing the latest speculations of Adelung and the German ethnologists. His Abridgment of Geography was also a very popular work. He spent the last sixteen years of his life at Padua, where he died in 1848.