Conrad Malte-Brun

An 1837 edition of a Malte-Brun Map of China. This is one of the earliest maps to use the term [[Manchuria }}

Conrad Malte-Brun (; born Malthe Conrad Bruun; 12 August 177514 December 1826), sometimes referred to simply as Malte-Brun, was a Dano-French geographer and journalist. His second son, Victor Adolphe Malte-Brun, was also a geographer. Today he is perhaps best remembered for coining the name for the geographic region Oceania (French ) around 1812, he also coined the name Indo-China. Provided by Wikipedia
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