Albert Ronsin (; 20 July 1928 â 2 July 2007) was a 20th-century French scholar, historian, librarian, and curator in Saint-Dié-des-Vosges.
Historian
He undertook historical research, especially about the Age of Discovery. He was particularly interested in the history of the name America given by Martin Waldseemüller to the continent that Amerigo Vespucci passed through and described. He studied globes and World maps of the early sixteenth, including Johannes Schöner globe created by Johann Schoener and Waldseemüller's maps.
He also studied the history of the (Gymnasium Vosagense), a cultural and scientific association founded circa 1500 in Saint-Dié and from which came many humanists, including Matthias Ringmann and .
Works
- 2006: Le nom de l'Amérique, l'invention des chanoines et savants de Saint-Dié, ÃÂditions La Nuée bleue, Strasbourg
- 1992: Découverte et baptême de l'Amérique, ÃÂditions Georges LePape, Montréal : 1979 (épuisé); réédition revue et augmentée, ÃÂditions de l'Est
- 1991: La fortune d'un nom : America, baptême de l'Amérique àSaint-Dié-les-Vosges, ÃÂditions Jérôme Millon, Grenoble
- 1990: Les Vosgiens célèbres: dictionnaire biographique illustré, ÃÂditions Gérard Louis
- 1984: Répertoire bibliographique des livres imprimés en France au XVIIe siècle. Lorraine et Trois-évêchés, ÃÂditions Koerner, Baden-Baden.
- 1979: Propositions pour une nouvelle structure des médiathèques publiques en France, ÃÂditions Médiathèques publiques nð49, JanuaryâÂÂMarch.
- 1969: Saint-Dié-les-Vosges 669-1969, ÃÂditions Publicité Moderne, Nancy.
He also published more than a hundred essays, notes and articles in various journals, annals, bulletins and historical, scientific and economic works.
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