Société de Géographie

Pierre-Simon Laplace , the first president of the Société de Géographie.

The Société de Géographie ( German  " Geographical Society " ) is a French learned society for the promotion and support of geographical research. It was founded on December 15, 1821 in the Hôtel de Ville in Paris , making it the oldest geographic society in the world. The 217 founding members included Georges Cuvier , Joseph Fourier , Joseph Gay-Lussac , Alexander von Humboldt , Dominique Vivant Denon and Jules Dumont d'Urville . The first president of the society was Pierre-Simon Laplace , the first general secretary Conrad Malte-Brun . His son Victor Adolphe Malte-Brun held this office from 1859 to 1866.

In 1879, at a congress in the Hôtel de la Société ( Boulevard Saint-Germain , N ° 184), the seat of the company since 1878, the construction of the Panama Canal was decided. The first Pan-Arab Congress was held here in 1913.

The Société de Géographie awards numerous awards. The eight “Grand Prizes” include the Grande Médaille d'or des Explorations et Voyages de Découverte (since 1829), the Médaille d'or pour Voyages d'étude, Missions et Travaux de Reconnaissance (since 1831) and the Grand Prix de la Société de Géographie pour Travaux et Publications geographiques (since 1922).

The Society's library holdings have been managed by the Bibliothèque nationale de France since 1942 .

Publications

• Bulletin de la Société de Géographie (1822 to 1899) (monthly)
• La Géographie- bulletin de la société de Géographie (1900–1939) (monthly)
• Acta Geographica (1947-2001) (quarterly)
• La Géographie (2001-2007)
• La GéoGraphie (since 2008)

President

1822 - Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749-1827) 1823 - Claude-Emmanuel de Pastoret (1755-1840) 1824 - François-René de Chateaubriand (1768–1848) 1825 - Gaspard de Chabrol (1773–1843) 1826 - Louis Becquey (1760-1849) 1827 - Christophe Chabrol de Crouzol (1771–1836) 1828 - Georges Cuvier (1769–1832) 1829 - Jean-Guillaume Hyde de Neuville (1776-1857) 1830 - Ambroise Polycarpe de La Rochefoucauld (1765-1817) 1831 - Antoin Maurice d'Argout (1782-1858) 1832 - Henri de Rigny (1782–1835) 1833 - Élie Decazes (1780-1860) 1834 - Marthe Camille Bachasson de Montalivet (1801-1880) 1835 - Prosper de Barante (1782–1866) 1836 - Jean Jacques Pelet (1777-1858) 1837 - François Guizot (1787–1874) 1838 - Narcisse-Achille de Salvandy (1795-1856) 1839 - Jean Tupinier (1779-1850) 1840 - Hippolyte François Jaubert (1798–1874) 1841 - Abel-François Villemain (1790–1870) 1842 - Laurent Cunin-Fridaire (1778-1858) 1843 - Albin Roussin (1781-1854) 1844 - Ange René Armand de Mackau (1788–1855) 1845 - Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) 1846 - Charles Athanase Walckenaer (1771-1852) 1847 - Louis-Mathieu Molé (1781–1855) 1848 - Edmé François Jomard (1777–1862) 1849 - Jean-Baptiste Dumas (1800-1884) 1851 - Pierre Louis Aimé Mathieu (1790-1870) 1853 - Cyril Pierre Laplace (1793–1875) 1854 - Hippolyte Fortoul (1811-1856) 1855 - Noël Jacques Lefebvre-Duruflé (1792–1877) 1856 - Joseph Daniel Gugniaut (1794–1876) 1857 - Pierre Daussy (1792-1860)

1858 - Eugène Daumas (1803–1871) 1859 - Léonce Élie de Beaumont (1798–1874) 1860 - Gustave Rouland (1806-1878) 1861 - Joseph Romain-Desfossés (1798–1864) 1862 - Victor de Persigny (1808–1872) 1863 - Alexandre Colonna-Walewski (1810–1868) 1864 - Prosper de Chasseloup-Laubat (1805–1873) 1873 - Camille de La Roncière-Le Noury ​​(1816–1881) 1881 - Ferdinand de Lesseps (1805-1894) 1890 - Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages de Bréau (1810-1892) 1892 - Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie (1810-1897) 1893 - Gabriel Auguste Daubrée (1814–1896) 1894 - Auguste Himly (1823-1906) 1895 - Pierre Janssen (1824–1907) 1896 - Jean Jacques Bouquet de La Grye (1827–1909) 1897 - Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835-1900) 1901 - Alfred Grandidier (1836–1921) 1906 - Charles Marie Le Myre de Vilers (1833-1918) 1909 - Ernest Hamy (1842–1908) 1910 - Roland Bonaparte (1858-1924) 1925 - Henri Cordier (1849-1925) 1926 - Ernest Roume (1858-1941) 1928 - Edouard Alfred Martel (1859–1938) 1931 - Louis Félix Marie Franchet d'Espèrey (1856-1942) 1939 - Georges Perrier (1872-1946) 1947 - Emmanuel de Martonne (1873–1955) 1953 - Robert Perret (1881-1965) 1960 - Louis Hurault (1886–1973) 1965 - Jean Despois (1901–1978) 1975 - Aimé Perpillou (1902–1976) 1976 - Roger Blais (1905-1992) 1983 - Jacqueline Beaujeu-Garnier (1917–1995) 1995 - Jean Bastié (* 1919) 2009 - Jean- Robert Pitte (* 1949)

Web links

• Société de Géographie website (French)
• La Géographie: bulletin de la Société de geographie in Gallica , the BnF's digital library.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The information in this article is based on the information on the official website of the Société de géographie socgeo.org ( Memento of the original of February 7, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) 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. , accessed December 11, 2010. 
2. ^ The Society for Geography in Berlin was founded in 1828, the Royal Geographical Society in London in 1830.