Jean Malaurie

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Jean Malaurie (1990) before Uelen

Jean Malaurie (born December 22, 1922 in Mainz , Germany ) is an important French geomorphologist , ethnologist , Arctic researcher , author and documentary filmmaker as well as " UNESCO ambassador of goodwill". He worked internationally for various governments in Washington , Ottawa , Copenhagen and Moscow as a scientific advisor as well as for the Paris elite university École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS).

Life

After two first expeditions with Paul-Emile Victor in the late 1940s traveled Malaurie 1950 for the first time Greenland and began intensive culture of the Inuit to explore. In addition, he lived for a time, including in Siorapaluk near Thule , closely with Eskimos. More than 30 expeditions followed throughout the Arctic, in addition to Greenland in Alaska , Canada and Siberia . Malaurie also mapped about 300 kilometers of coastline. On May 29, 1951, Jean Malaurie was the first European to reach the geomagnetic North Pole in Inglefield Land in northwest Greenland.

As early as 1955, Malaurie founded the Terre Humaine book series at the French publisher Plon , in which important titles such as Sad Tropen by Claude Lévi-Strauss appeared. In 1956 he co-founded the Center for Arctic Studies (Center d'études arctiques et finno-scandinaves) at the École pratique des Hautes Études of the Sorbonne .

In the 1970s, Jean Malaurie convened an international and interdisciplinary congress that dealt very early and in a forward-looking manner with the importance of the Arctic mineral resources, especially oil , for the peoples living there. He is to be seen as a staunch advocate of the rights of Arctic minorities, whom he sees threatened by industrial development.

After Gorbachev had come to the head of the Soviet Union , Malaurie led the first international expedition in 1990 on behalf of the Soviet government in Chukotka, Siberia, and was the first non-Soviet researcher to visit Walallee , an arctic cult site that was only opened in 1977 by the Soviet archaeologist Sergei Arutjunov (* 1932) and Michail Tschlenow (* 1940), but remained largely unknown. Later he founded the State Polar Academy in Saint Petersburg, the purpose of which is to establish the educated elite of the arctic peoples.

In 2007 he was appointed “Goodwill Ambassador” for the Arctic regions by UNESCO . In the same year he was appointed honorary president of the Uummannaq Polar Institute , an institution for the preservation of culture and promotion of educational programs for the youth of the Inuit. In 2009 UNESCO commissioned him to prepare a draft treaty on environmental protection in the Arctic.

Publications

  • Les derniers Rois de Thulé , Librairie Plon, Paris 1955 (German edition: The last kings of Thule , VEB FA Brockhaus Verlag, Leipzig 1957)
  • Ultima Thulé. De la découverte à l'invasion . Ed. du Chêne, 2000. ISBN 2-84277-295-4 (German edition: Mythos Nordpol. 200 years of expedition history . National Geographic Germany, 2003. ISBN 3-936559-20-1 )
  • L'Appel du Nord. Editions de La Martiniere, Paris 2001 (German edition: Der Ruf des Nordens. In the footsteps of the Inuit. JC Bucher Verlag, Munich 2001. ISBN 3-7658-1291-9 )
  • Jean Malaurie, une énergie créatrice by Giulia Bogliolo Bruna, coll. “Lire et comprendre”, Editions Armand Colin, Paris, October 2012.

Films (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lecture exposé at the University of Mainz as part of the award by the City of Mainz on November 4, 2004 . Retrieved March 21, 2010.
  2. ↑ Biography in Jean Malaurie's website ( fr ) Archived from the original on October 23, 2009. Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved on March 21, 2010: “› Né en 1922 à Mayenne ‹, but below› Né le 22 Décembre 1922 à Mayence Allemagne ‹”  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.jean-malaurie.fr
  3. ^ Professor Jean Malaurie joins ranks of UNESCO Goodwill Ambassadors (July 17, 2007) . Retrieved March 21, 2010.
  4. ↑ Jean Malaurie: Myth of the North Pole. 200 years of expedition history . National Geographic Germany, 2003, p. 5
personal data
SURNAME Malaurie, Jean
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Malaurie, Jean-Noel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French geomorphologist, ethnologist, Arctic explorer
DATE OF BIRTH December 22, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz