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Jacques Élisée Reclus ( French: [ʁəkly]; 15 March 1830 – 4 July 1905) was a French geographer, writer and anarchist. He produced his 19-volume masterwork, La Nouvelle Géographie universelle, la terre et les hommes ("Universal Geography"), over a period of nearly 20 years (1875–1894).
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Date of birth: March 15, 1830 Place of birth: Saint-Foy-la-Grande, Gironde, France Died: July 4, 1905; Torhout, Belgium Education: University of Berlin Notable works: “Nouvelle géographie universelle” (New Universal Geography), “Le Révolté” and “La Révolte” Élisée Reclus (1830-1905) was a French geographer, writer, and anarchist. He is known for hi...
He was a vocal member of the Anti-Marriage Movement that had grown among working-class French in the mid-to-late 1800s. This view of his is captured in his 1882 pamphlet titled “Unions Libres”. He and his two daughters subscribed to a kind of union known as “free unions” (union libre) which was devoid of civil or religious ceremonies. Reclus advoca...
He wrote a number of articles in support of the Paris Commune, a revolutionary government that took the reins of control in Paris from March 18 to May 28, 1871. For his political activism, he was exiled from France in 1872. He proceeded to settle in Switzerland, where he wrote a number of works, including Histoire d’une montagne. It was also in Swi...
He was born to a Protestant preacher. It’s said that he had thirteen siblings, including famous French geographer Onésime Reclus and French anarchist Élie Reclus. During his time at the University of Berlin, he was taken under the wings of Carl Ritter (1779-1859), a German geographer who is widely considered one of the founders of modern geography....
Jun 30, 2024 · Élisée Reclus was a French geographer and anarchist who was awarded the gold medal of the Paris Geographical Society in 1892 for La Nouvelle Géographie universelle. He was educated at the Protestant college of Montauban and studied geography under Carl Ritter in Berlin.
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Biographical sources indicate that the young Reclus and his older brother Élie (1827-1904) read the works of the German Naturphilosophen Friedrich Schelling (1775-1854) and Lorenz Oken (1779-1851), alongside those of the central figures of French socialism such as Pierre Leroux (1797-1871) and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809-1965). As ...
Reclus’s revulsion of the slave trade during the antebellum period in Loui-siana and commentary on the racist events that he wit-nessed while in the United States made long and lasting impressions on Clark and Martin.
Élisée Reclus (1830-1904) a geographer and a propagandist for the anarchist party. Elisée was born in Sainte-Foy-la –Grande (Gironde). He had thirteen brothers and sisters; his father was a Calvinist pastor; later he became a teacher in the Protestant College in Sainte Foy.
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Mar 21, 2016 · Reclus's revulsion of the slave trade during the antebellum period in Louisiana and commentary on the racist events that he witnessed while in the United States made long and lasting impressions on Clark and Martin.
