Léon Metchnikoff
Léon Metchnikoff | |
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![]() Metchnikoff, c. 1880 | |
Born | Saint Petersburg, Russia | May 30, 1838
Died | June 30, 1888 | (aged 50)
Occupation | geographer |
Léon Metchnikoff (1838–1888) was an anarchist geographer. Born in Saint Petersburg, Russia on May 30, 1838, he fought in Garibaldi's army and met Mikhail Bakunin in 1864. Metchnikoff lived in Geneva for ten years and Japan for two. Upon his return, he lectured on Japan and collaborated with Elisée Reclus on the New Universal Geography. Metchnikoff taught statistics and comparative geography at the Academy of Neuchâtel from 1883 to 1887, when he grew ill. He died in Clarens, Switzerland, on June 30, 1888.[1]
Works[]
- The Japanese Empire (1881)
- Civilization and the Great Historical Rivers (1889)
References[]
- ^ Enckell, Marianne (2020). "METCHNIKOFF Léon". Dictionnaire des anarchistes (in French). Paris: Maitron/Editions de l'Atelier.
Further reading[]
- Ferretti, Federico; Pelletier, Philippe (January 29, 2019). "Spatialités et rapports de domination dans l'œuvre des géographes anarchistes Reclus, Kropotkine et Metchnikoff". In Clerval, Anne; Fleury, Antoine; Rebotier, Julien; Weber, Serge (eds.). Espace et rapports de domination. Géographie sociale. Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes. pp. 23–34. ISBN 978-2-7535-6398-8.
- Jud, Peter (May 11, 2009). "Léon Metchnikoff". Historical Dictionary of Switzerland (in German). Retrieved November 25, 2020.
External links[]
Media related to Leon Metchnikoff at Wikimedia Commons
Categories:
- 1838 births
- 1888 deaths
- People from Saint Petersburg
- People from Geneva
- Russian anarchists
- Russian geographers
- Russian Japanologists
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