Pierre Émile Levasseur

Pierre Émile Levasseur late 19th century

Pierre Émile Levasseur (8 December 1828 – 10 July 1911), was a French economist, historian, Professor of geography, history and statistics in the Collège de France, at the Conservatoire national des arts et métiers and at the École Libre des Sciences Politiques,[1] known as the founders and promoters of the study of commercial geography.[2][3]

Life and work

Levasseur was born in Paris, France, as son of the jewelry manufacturer Pierre Antoine Levasseur. He was educated at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris.[4]

Levasseur began teaching in the lycée at Alençon in 1852, and in 1857 became professor of rhetoric at Besançon. He returned to Paris to become professor at the lycée Saint Louis. In 1868 he was chosen a member of the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences. In 1872 he was appointed professor of geography, history and statistics in the College de France, and subsequently became also professor at the Conservatoire des arts et métiers and at the École libre des sciences politiques, which later became known as the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris.

Levasseur was one of the founders of the study of commercial geography, and became a member of the Council of Public Instruction, president of the French society of political economy and honorary president of the French geographical society.

Levasseur was elected member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1894.

Selected publications

His numerous writings include:

References

  1. ↑ Wilhelm Bernsdorf, Horst Knospe. International Lexicon of Sociology. 1980, p. 245.
  2. ↑ Collier's Encyclopedia: With Bibliography and Index, Vol 12, 1958. p. 311.
  3. ↑ Robert Leroux (2012). French Liberalism in the 19th Century: An Anthology. p. 244
  4. ↑ Encyclopedia Americana, Vol. 17, 1965, p. 316
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