Lucien Gallois

Lucien Louis Joseph Gallois (1857-1941) was a French geographer who was a native of Metz.

He was a student at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, where he took classes from Paul Vidal de la Blache (1845-1918). In 1884 he received his "agrégation", and in 1893 became a lecturer at the Sorbonne. From 1898 to 1907 he was a professor of geography at the Ecole Normale Superieure, and afterwards a professor at the Sorbonne, where he remained until his retirement in 1927.

Gallois made major contributions to the "Annales de géographie", a geographic magazine that was founded by his mentor, Paul Vidal de la Blache, and after the latters' death in 1918, he assumed directorship of "Géographie universelle", a major project involving regional geography of the whole world.

Gallois had a keen interest involving the history of geography and cartography, as made evident by an influential 1890 study on German geographers of the Renaissance titled "Les Géographes Allemands De La Renaissance". Another noted publication of his was "Régions naturelles et noms de pays. Étude sur la région Parisienne" (Natural regions and country names. Study on the Paris region).

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