Léon Metchnikoff

Léon Metchnikoff
Metchnikoff, c. 1880
Born	(1838-05-30)May 30, 1838 Saint Petersburg, Russia
Died	June 30, 1888(1888-06-30) (aged 50) Clarens, Switzerland
Occupation	geographer

Léon Metchnikoff (30 May 1838 – 30 June 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. Léon was the elder brother of the Nobel Prize laureate Élie Metchnikoff.

Works

• The Japanese Empire (1881)
• Civilization and the Great Historical Rivers (1889)

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

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