Maltebrun

Maltebrun (Malthe Konrad Brunn), the Danish geographer, was born in Jutland in 1775. He was obliged to leave Copenhagen in 1800 on account of his revolutionary sympathies and lived in Paris the rest of his life. There he supported himself by journalism and teaching, and published his Precis de la Geographic I'nivcrsclle (reissued in 1872), his Annates des Voyages, and his Geographic Matlteiiiatique, Physique, et Politique. He died in 1826.