Roger Dion (geographer)
Roger Dion (28 October 1896 – 19 September 1981) was a French geographer and historian.
Biography
Roger Dion was born in Argenton-sur-Creuse (Indre), where his father was a justice of the peace.[1] He attended secondary school at the Rollin College in Paris.[2] From 1913 to 1915, he prepared for the competitive examination for the École normale supérieure at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand. He was mobilized in 1916. He entered the École normale supérieure in 1919.[1] After receiving a diploma of higher studies on the natural region of the Loire Valley in the country of Blois (1920), he obtained the agrégation in 1921.[1]
In 1934, he defended his thesis on the Loire Valley.[1] He was then appointed to the University of Lille (Nord) and then, in 1945, to the Sorbonne; in 1948, he was elected to the chair of historical geography at the Collège de France,[1] which he held for twenty years.[lower-alpha 1] He had several children, including Denis Dion, Pierre Dion, Rémi Dion, Françoise Dion, who became Jacquin, and Anne Marie Dion.
He died at the age of 84 at Neuilly-sur-Seine in the Hauts-de-Seine department.
Works
- Le Val de Loire. Étude de géographie régionale (1933)
- Essai sur la formation du paysage rural français (1934; 1991)
- La part de la géographie et celle de l'histoire dans l'explication de l'habitat rural du Bassin parisien (1946)
- Les frontières de la France (1947; 1979)
- Histoire de la vigne et du vin en France: des origines au XIXe siècle (1959; 1991; 2010)
- Histoire des levées de la Loire (1961)
- Aspects politiques de la géographie antique (1977)
- Le paysage et la vigne. Essais de géographie historique (1990)
Notes
Footnotes
- ↑ Roger Dion's archives are deposited at the Collège de France (83 boxes); they are kept by the IMEC at Ardenne Abbey.
Citations
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Broc, Numa (1982). "Roger Dion (1896-1981)," Annales de géographie, Vol. XCI, No. 504, pp. 205–17.
- ↑ Méry-Barnabé, Christine (2006). Célèbres en Berry. Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire: Alan Sutton, p. 133.
References
- Brunaud, Pierre; Gérard Coulon (1996). "Roger Dion." In: Argenton-sur-Creuse et ses écrivains. Paris: Royer, pp. 57–59.
- Joly, Gérard (2013). "Dion (Roger)." In: Dictionnaire biographique de géographes français du xxe siècle, aujourd'hui disparus. Paris: PRODIG, p. 53.
- Plet, Françoise (2003). "Dion Roger." In: Jacques Lévy & Michel Lussault, eds., Dictionnaire de la géographie et de l'espace des sociétés. Paris: Belin, pp. 262–63.
- Rogier, Jean (2008). "Portrait de Roger Dion," Argenton et son histoire, No. 23, Cercle d'Histoire d'Argenton-sur-Creuse.
- Schweitz, Daniel (2019). Éléments de biographie, bibliographie ligérienne et catalogue de la bibliothèque du géographe Yves Babonaux (1926-2007). Tours: Académie des sciences, arts et belles-lettres de Touraine.
External links
- 1896 births
- 1981 deaths
- 20th-century French historians
- École Normale Supérieure alumni
- French military personnel of World War I
- French geographers
- Lycée Louis-le-Grand alumni
- People from Argenton-sur-Creuse
- Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1914–1918 (France)
- University of Lille Nord de France faculty
- University of Paris faculty
