Jean-Denis Barbié du Bocage
Jean-Denis Barbié du Bocage (born April 28, 1760 in Paris , † December 28, 1825 there ) was a French geographer and cartographer .
Life
Jean-Denis Barbié du Bocage was a student at the Collège Mazarin and d'Anvilles . He was under Louis XVI. 1780 as a geographer at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in 1785 employed by the royal medals cabinet and after the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1792 supervisor of the map collection at the royal library . Imprisoned in 1793, he was released through the determination of his wife. Under the Directory he became a member of the Council of the Geographical Office at the Ministry of the Interior in 1797 and, after Napoleon's takeover, in 1802 as a geographer at the War Ministry and in 1803 at the Department of Foreign Affairs. From 1806 he was a member of the Institut de France , from 1808 a foreign member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences , from 1809 professor of old and new geography at the Faculté de lettres in Paris and in 1821 one of the founders of the Geographical Society . He died in Paris on December 28, 1825 at the age of 65 and was buried in the Père Lachaise cemetery.
His fame founded Barbie du Bocage by his to Barthelemy's Voyage du jeune Anacharsis delivered Atlas (Paris 1788-89; new edition, 1799), the other card works followed, such as the by Xenophon described retreat of ten thousand Greeks Fortias Mélanges de géographie , further Cartes de marches d'Alexandre et analyze, plan de Tyr, de Thèbes en Béotie, essai sur la topographie de cette ville for Sainte-Croix ' Examen critique des historiens d' Alexandre le grand et al
Other works
- Cartes et notices pour le Mémoire de M. de Sainte-Croix, sur le cours de l'Araxe et du Cyrus, essai sur la bataille de Cunaxa , avec un plan
- Notice sur la vie et les ouvrages de d'Anville , Paris 1802
- Various plans, carte de la Grèce modern, pour le voyage de M. Pouqueville en Morée ...
- Carte de la navigation intérieure d'une partie de la Russie européenne , Paris 1805
- Traduction des voyages de Chandler dans l'Asie-Mineure , 3 vols., Paris 1806
- Plans d'une partie de l'île de Cerigo, de l'île de Tine , for Castellan's and Zalony's trip
- Carte générale de la Grèce , Paris 1810
- L'Hellespont et l'île de Lesbos , for Gails Thucydides
- Partie septentrionale de l'Inde pour les Indiques d ' Arrien
- Précis de geographie ancienne , part of John Pinkerton's and CA Walckenaer's Outline of Modern Geography ( Abrégé de geographie modern , 1811)
- Cartes historiques de l'état de l'Inde en 1605, en 1707, en 1812 , for Langlès' Monuments de l'Hindoustan
- Mémoires sur Aenoé, Phylé et Eleutheres , for John Spencer Stanhope's topography of the Battle of Plataiai
- Plans topographiques et itinéraires de Constantinople, du Bosphore… , for Mellings Voyage pittoresque de Constantinople
- Plans and maps for Choiseul-Gouffiers Voyage pittoresque de la Grèce
progeny
Barbié du Bocage's older son, Jean Guillaume (* 1793; † 1843), head of the topographical bureau and professor at the Faculty of Science at the Paris Academy, was also known as an accomplished geographer through several treatises and maps. The younger son, Alexandre François (14 September 1798 - 25 February 1835), author of the Traité de géographie général (Paris 1832) and the Sainte Bible en latin et en français, suivie d'un dictionnaire étymologique, géographique, et archéologique (Paris 1828–34), became professor of geography at the Faculté des lettres in Paris. Alexandre François' son Victor Amédée (born January 28, 1832 - October 11, 1890) was secretary of the Geographical Society in Paris, also known as a specialist writer
Web links
- Literature by and about Jean-Denis Barbié du Bocage in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
literature
- Jean-Denis Barbié du Bocage . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 2, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 360.
- La Renau Diére: Barbié du Bocage . In: LG Michaud (ed.): Biography universal, ancienne et modern . Supplement. tape 57 . Imprimerie de Paul Dupont, Paris 1834 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 31.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Barbié du Bocage, Jean-Denis |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French geographer and cartographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 28, 1760 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 28, 1825 |
| Place of death | Paris |