Gourou, Pierre, 1900-1999
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Name (Latin)
Gourou, Pierre, 1900-1999
Other forms of name
nnea Gourou, Pierre, 1900-
Date of birth
1900-08-31
Date of death
1999-05-13
Place of birth
Tunis (Tunisia)
Place of death
Brussels (Belgium)
Associated country
Tunisia
Belgium
France
Vietnam, Northern
Field of activity
Tropics--Geography Human geography
Associate group
Collège de France
Collège de France (1947 - 1947)
Université libre de Bruxelles. Faculté des sciences
Occupation
Geographers
Associated Language
fre
Gender
male
Sources of Information
- His Les paysans du delta tonkinois, 1936.
- Wikipedia, French version, Sep. 10, 2014(Pierre Gourou; b. Aug. 31, 1900 in Tunis; d. May 13, 1999 in Brussels; French geographer and tropicalist; specialist in rural Indochine, esp. the Tonkin Delta; honorary prof., Faculté des sciences, université libre de Bruxelles; chaire d'étude du monde tropical, Collège de France, 1947-1970; founder in 1961, with Émile Benveniste and Claude Lévi-Strauss, of L'Homme, revue française d'anthropologie)
- RA. LCN 2018
Wikipedia description:
Pierre Gourou (31 August 1900 – 13 May 1999) was a French geographer. In 1984, he received the Patron's Medal from the Royal Geographical Society.
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