Edme Mentelle

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Edme Mentelle
(copper engraving from 1801)

Edme Mentelle (born October 11, 1730 in Paris , † December 29, 1815 , ibid) was a French cartographer, professor of geography and history and poet.

Mentelle was from 1760 to 1792 professor of history and geography at the École Militaire in Paris, from 1794 to 1795 he taught geography at the École normal supérieure . In 1795 he was elected to the Académie des sciences morales et politiques .

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