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ADRIAN BALBI (1782-1848)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 241 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ADRIAN BALBI (1782-1848)  ,
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Italian geographer, was born at Venice on the 25th of
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April 1782 . The publication of his Prospetto politico-geografico dello state allude del globe (Venice, 18o8) obtained his election to the chair of professor of geography at the college of
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San Michele at Murano; in 18r1–1813 he was professor of physics at the
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Lyceum of Fenno, and afterwards became attached to the customs office at his native city . In 182o he visited
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Portugal, and there collected materials for his Essai statistique sur le royaume de Portugal et d' Algarve, published in 1822 at Paris, where the author resided from 1821 until 1832 . This was followed by Varietes politiques et statistiques de la monarchie portugaise, which contains some curious observations respecting that country under the
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Roman sway . In 1826 he published the first
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volume of his
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Atlas ethnographique du globe, ou classification
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des peuples anciens et modernes d'apres leurs langues, a
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work of
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great erudition . In 1832 appeared the Abrege de Geographic, which, in an enlarged form, was translated into the
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principal
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languages of
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Europe . Balbi retired to Padua and there died on the 14th of March 1848 . His son, Eugenio Balbi (1812-1884), followed a similar career, being professor of geography at Pavia, and
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publishing his
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father's Scritti Geografici (
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Turin, 1841), and
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original
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works in Gea, ossia la terra (Trieste, 1854–1867) and Saggio di geografia (Milan, 1868) .

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