Christian Garnier (geographer)

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Christian Garnier (called Nino) (* July 24, 1872 Paris ; † September 4, 1898 ibid) was a French geographer and a pioneer of linguistic geography and dialect cartography.

Life

Christian Garnier was the second son of Charles Garnier and Louise Bary. The couple, who married in 1858, had lost their first son Daniel, born March 21, 1862, eight years earlier at the age of two.

Christian Garnier studied at the renowned Lycée Louis-le-Grand with Professor Auguste-Stéphane Ammann (1844–1921). He was passionate about languages ​​and geography from early adolescence and at the age of 14 he became the youngest member of the Société de Géographie de Paris . At the age of 21, he entered the École de génie civil , but his plans were thwarted by a tuberculosis in 1894. Since the Garnier family's life would never return to normal, Louise and Charles decided to stay in Bordighera for most of the year , where they owned a villa that had been built by Charles in 1871.

Christian died at the age of 26 on September 4, 1898, one month after his father. He was buried in the Montparnasse Cemetery near his father.

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In 1895, despite his illness, he managed to publish his book Essai de géographie générale suivi de tables se rapportant à la geographie (essay on general geography with appendix of geographical tables). In 1899 he published his method of the general rational transcription of geographical names (TRG) through the publisher Ernest Leroux , undoubtedly his most notable book, the nomenclature of which is still used by geographers today.

During these years Garnier participated in numerous scientific conferences all over Europe and applied with his main work Méthode de Transcription rationnelle générale des Noms géographiques (method of the general rational transcription of geographical names) in 1898 for the Prix ​​Volney , which was awarded to him posthumously unanimously.

In 1897 he published a map of the distribution of languages ​​in the western Alps. In doing so, he focused on the similarities of the dialects that were spoken across political borders on both sides of the Alpine ridges. In the same year he wrote a catalogus plantarum of the botanical species in the park of Villa Garnier and a geographical study monograph of the province of Porto Maurizio. His last publication, which appeared a few months before his death, was grammar and vocabulary of the idioms of Bordighera and Realdo .

Works (selection)

  • Dossier on Bordighera (1889)
  • Essai de geographie générale suivi de tables se rapportant à la geographie (1895)
  • Charte de la distribution des langues dans les Alpes occidentales (1897)
  • Catalogus plantarum vivacium annuarumque quae in plena terra cultae reperiuntur in horto Villae Caroli Garnier (1897)
  • Monograph de la province de Porto Maurizio (1897)
  • «Méthode de transcription rationnelle générale des noms géographique», published in Paris chez Leroux in 1898
  • Lettres sur participation au III Congrès italien de geographies , Bordighera (19 avril 1898)
  • Deux patois des Alpes-Maritimes italiennes: grammaires et vocabulaires méthodiques des idiomes de Bordighera et de Realdo (1898)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andrea Folli, Gisella Merello: Charles Garnier e la Riviera . Editore ERGA, Genoa 2000, ISBN 88-8163-164-4 .
  2. ↑ [1]
  3. ↑ [2]
  4. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ [3]
  6. ↑ [4]
personal data
SURNAME Garnier, Christian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Garnier, Nino (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French geographer
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH September 4, 1898
Place of death Paris