Jacques Bertin
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| Born | 27 July 1918 |
| Died | 3 May 2010 (aged 91)[1] Paris, France |
| Occupation(s) | Cartographer, Theorist |
Jacques Bertin (27 July 1918 – 3 May 2010
Biography
Jacques Bertin was born in 1918 in Maisons-Laffitte, Yvelines. When he was 10, he received the first prize of cartography at primary school. He never had problems with drawing, and pursued interests including architecture, the teaching of drawing and cartography.[2] Finally he ended up studying geography and cartography at the Sorbonne.
He became founder and director of the Cartographic Laboratory of the
In 1993 Bertin received the "Mercator-Medaille der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Kartographie"
Bertin died in Paris on 3 May 2010.[1]
Publications
Jacques Bertin has published numerous scientific maps, papers and articles on map making, semiology, graphical information and graphic processing.
- 1967. Sémiologie Graphique. Les diagrammes, les réseaux, les cartes. With Marc Barbut [et al.]. Paris : Gauthier-Villars. (Translation 1983. Semiology of Graphics by William J. Berg.)
- 1969. Etude et réalisation d'un dispositif de goniométrie et d'observation de formes d'onde, en large bande.
- 1976. Experimental and Theoretical Aspects of Induced Polarization. 2 vol. With J. Loes. Berlin : Gebruder. Borntraeger.
- 1977. Graphique et le traitement graphique de l'information. With Serge Bonin [et al.].
- 1977. La graphique et le traitement graphique de l'information. Paris : Flammarion, 1977, 273 p. (translation 1981. Graphics and graphic information-processing by William J. Berg and Paul Scott).
- 1992. Harper atlas of world history. with Pierre Vidal-Naquet. N.Y. : HarperCollins.
- 1997. Atlas historique universel. Panorama de l'histoire du monde. With J. Devisse, D. Lavallée and J. Népote. Genève : Éd. Minerve, 180 p.
- 2006. Nuovo atlante storico Zanichelli / sotto la direzione di Pierre Vidal-Naquet; direzione della cartografia.
References
- ^ a b c "UW Press -: Semiology of Graphics: Diagrams, Networks, Maps, Jacques Bertin, Translated from the French by William J. Berg". Archived from the original on 13 June 2010. Retrieved 23 July 2010.
- ^ a b Juan C. Dürsteler (2000-08). Interview with Jacques Bertin. Retrieved 23 June 2008.
- ^ David P. Bickmore (1969). "Sémiologie Graphique: les diagrammes, les réseaux, les cartes by Jacques Bertin." In: The Geographical Journal, Vol. 135, No. 1 (Mar., 1969), pp. 144–146.
- ^ David Ruxton Fraser Taylor (1985). "Education and Training in Contemporary Cartography". p. viii
- ^ Ron Bergquist (2006). "Graphic Portrayal of Information"[permanent dead link]. Presentation at ils.unc.edu. Retrieved 1 July 2008.
- ^ Satzung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Kartographie e.V. Archived 26 February 2007 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 1 July 2008.
External links
- Interview with Jacques Bertin
- Jacques Bertin's Semiology of Graphics
- Graphische Variablen im UMN MapServer (in German)
- Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales page for Bertin (in French)
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