Jean Malaurie

Jean Malaurie , born in 1922, is a Ethnologue, Géographe and writer French.

Biography

After two ethnographic missions in the desert of the Hoggar, it leaves on mission geological to the Greenland in 1950. During several years, it will share the life of the Inuit S of the area of Thulé, and will draw from this experiment its work more known, the Last kings de Thulé (1954, and four posterior editions). One owes him many other works, specialized or general publics, and a cartography of part of the Greenland.

The May 29th 1951, he is the first French to reach the northern geomagnetic pole in sledge, exploit carried out with the assistance of friends Inuit S. He has with his credit more than thirty missions of polar exploration.

In 1955, it founds the collection human Ground at Plon. It also created in 1957 the Center of Arctic studies (which depends on the national Muséum of natural history), and the first pulpit of Arctic studies to the Ecole of the high studies in social sciences.

It has been charged for a few years to set up a school forming the leading elites of the various people inuits of the Arctique in the name of France with the assistance of the Russia and the Canada. This school is called the polar Académie of State de Saint-Pétersbourg.

It is since 1982 member of the Académie of Rouen and was named Officer of the Legion of Honor in 1998.

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