About Augustin Bernard
Lived 1865 – 1947 (aged 82). Augustin Bernard was a French historian, geographer and africanist.
Augustin Alexis Bernard (1865–1947) was a French colonial geographer and historian.
Life Bernard was born on 26 August 1865 in Chaumont-sur-Tharonne (Loir-et-Cher) on 26 August 1865. He studied at the University of Paris, graduating Licentiate of Letters (1883), Licentiate of Law (1887), and Agrégé of History and Geography (1889). After briefly teaching at the Lycée of Lorient he wrote a doctoral thesis on Adam of Bremen (graduating Doctor of Letters in 1895). that had been created specifically for him, becoming a professor in 1920.
He died in Bourbon-l'Archambault (Allier) on 29 December 1947.
Publications L'Archipel de la Nouvelle Calédonie (1894) with Emile Ficheur, Les Régions Naturelles de l'Algérie (1906) Les Confins algéro-marocains (1911)
Honours and awards Officer of the Légion d'Honneur
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French historian and geographer (1865-1947)
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Augustin Bernard was born on 26 August 1865 in Chaumont-sur-Tharonne.
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Augustin Bernard died on 29 December 1947 in Bourbon-l'Archambault.
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Augustin Bernard was a historian, geographer and africanist.
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