Geoffrey Bruun

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Geoffrey Bruun (20 October 1898 – 13 July 1988) was a

University of Illinois, and Georgetown University.[1]

He was the author of several books on European history, including Europe and the French Imperium, 1799–1814, published in 1938; Europe in Evolution, (1945) and Europe and America Since 1492 (1954), as well as a biography of Georges Clemenceau, the French statesman, published in 1943.

Although he wrote book reviews for the

Saturday Review of Literature and other journals, Bruun is most widely known for his textbooks, including A Survey of European Civilization, which he wrote in collaboration with Wallace K. Ferguson
and which has gone through several editions since its publication in 1936.

Bruun died at the age of 89 of a kidney ailment at his home in Ithaca, New York.

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