Jacques Ancel, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Jacques Ancel

French geographer and geopolitician

Date of Birth: 22-Jul-1882

Place of Birth: Parmain, Île-de-France, France

Date of Death: 01-Dec-1943

Profession: historian, geographer, geopolitician

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Jacques Ancel (July 22, 1879 in Parmain, Val-d'Oise – 1943) was a French geographer and geopolitician.
He is author of several books, including Peoples and Nations of Balkans: political geography (1926) and Geopolitics (1936). After studying history and geography and professing as a teacher, Ancel was drafted to fight in World War I.
Wounded three times, he was detached to the Headquarters of the French Army's Oriental Corps (fighting in the Ottoman Empire and the Balkans).
After the war, he helped mediate the tense relations between Yugoslavia and Bulgaria.
In 1930, Ancel obtained his doctorate with the thesis La Macédoine, étude de colonisation contemporaine ("Macedonia, a study in contemporary colonization"). He taught at the University of Paris' Institute of Higher International Studies, and was a corresponding member of the Romanian Academy and of other scientific forums.
He was a knight of the Légion d'honneur.