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Maltebrun, KONRAD (properly MALTHE CONRAD BRUUN), geographer, born 12th August 1775, at Thisted, in Jutland, studied in Copenhagen, but was banished in 1800 because of his having openly shown his sympathy with the French Revolution. He sought refuge in Paris, where he supported himself by teaching and literary labours. With Mentelle and Herbin he compiled a Géographie Mathématique du Monde (16 vols. 1803-7); and in 1808 he began Annales des Voyages, de la Géographie, et de l'Histoire (24 vols.), in 1818 Nouvelles Annales. His principal work is a Précis de la Géographie Universelle (8 vols. 1810-29; latest ed. 6 vols. 1872). He also contributed to the Dictionnaire de la Géographie Universelle (8 vols. 1821), and took an active part in founding the Geographical Society of Paris. He died 14th December 1826.—His son, VICTOR ADOLPHE MALTEBRUN (1816-89), was professor of History and Geography at the college of Pamiers and subsequently at Paris (1848-60); and from 1860 onwards he was secretary of the Geographical Society of Paris. He was the author of numerous geographical works, as La France Illustrée (new ed. 1879-84), L'Allemagne Illustrée (1884-86), Histoire Géographique et Historique de l'Allemagne (1866-68), &c.