Numa Broc, born on 26 January 1934, in Versailles[1] and died in Perpignan on 12 March 2017,[2] was a French geographer, specialising in the history and epistemology of geography.
[3] From a family of civil servants, Numa Broc attended secondary school at the Lycée de Perpignan (1945–1951) before studying at the University of Clermont-Ferrand (1951–1955).
With a doctorate in literature, he met François de Dainville in 1964, who directed him towards the history of geography and explorers.
A member of the ERA team (Epistemology of the History of Geography) at the French National Centre for Scientific Research, he authored numerous articles in geographical and academic journals as well as several books.
Despite his visual impairment, which affected him in the latter part of his professional career, with the help of his wife Marie Louise and a friend, he wrote and published his last work in 2 volumes: Une histoire de la géographie physique en France (XIXe – XXe siècles) in 2010 at the age of 76.