Germaine Veyret-Verner

Germaine Veyret-Verner (17 September 1913 - 12 August 1973) was a French geographer and one of the first female university professors in France, known for her work on the Alps, her role in the development of geography and her international recognition relating to the Institut de géographie alpine in Grenoble and the Revue de géographie alpine.

Life Early life Born Germaine Verner in Saint-Thibaud-de-Couz, she was the only daughter of two teachers from Savoie. She studied under Anne Dorne at a lycée for young women in Chambéry from 1924 to 1931 - Dorne had links to the Institut de Géographie Alpine and encouraged Verner to join the Faculté des Lettres de Grenoble where she became "pupil and spiritual daughter of Blanchard". In 1938 at Challes-les-Eaux she married fellow geographer

The Bastille at Grenoble on the Chartreuse mountain range, with at the centre the former university buildings of the Rabot and the student residence of the same name. In 1949 she succeeded Max Derruau, who had left for Clermont-Ferrand, According to her husband, "her teaching, drawn from original research in human and regional geography, played a considerable part in the Institut de Géographie Alpine's rise during this period". a role she took particularly to heart.

From 1961 to 1068 she was president of the Commission du Comité national français de géographie (CNFG) de géographie industrielle, then from 1969 to 1972 president of the Commission de Géographie urbaine du Comité national de géographie.

Later life

She is closely associated with the influence of the Institut and of the Revue de Géographie Alpine She died of a heart attack in Grenoble

Main works L'industrie des Alpes françaises, étude géographique, Grenoble, Arthaud, 1948, 371 p. Population. Mouvements, structures, répartition, Grenoble, Arthaud, 1959, 266 p. Grenoble et ses Alpes... (ill. Samivel), Grenoble, Arthaud, 1962, 298 p. Moyennes et petites villes des Alpes, Grenoble, Impr. Allier, 1964, 131 p. Au coeur de l'Europe, les Alpes, Paris, Flammarion, 1967, 548 p. Grenoble, capitale alpine, Grenoble, Arthaud, 1967, 247 p. (co-authored with her husband and Félix Germain) Les Grandes Alpes ensoleillées, Paris, Arthaud, 1970, 131 p. (co-authored with her husband) Atlas et géographie des Alpes françaises, Genève-Paris, Famot - Flammarion, 1979, 316 p. (co-authored with her husband)