Victor Adolphe Malte-Brun (1816 – July 13, 1889) was a French geographer and cartographer. He was born in Marcoussis, a suburb of Paris, in the Essonne département, the son of Conrad Malte-Brun, another geographer, of Danish origin, and founder of the Société de Géographie. In 1851, Victor Adolphe Malte-Brun became a member of the Société de Géographie, and quickly rose to be its secretary-general. He is buried in the Cimetière du Montparnasse in Paris.
Memory
His name was given to a street in Marcoussis (the one where he used to live). A mountain of New Zealand, in the Southern Alps on South Island also bears his name: Mount Maltebrun (culminating, according to sources', between 3,176 m and 3,199 m). However, nowhere it is said which of the two geographers was to be honoured by this namegiving.
Partial bibliography
- Histoire de Marcoussis (History of Marcoussis) (1867)
- La France illustrée (Illustrated France, volumes I and V) (1882)
