Pierre Émile Levasseur

Pierre Émile Levasseur, 3rd Baron Levasseur (8 December 1828 – 10 July 1911), was a French economist, historian, Professor of geography, history and statistics in the Collège de France, at the Conservatoire national des arts et métiers and at the École Libre des Sciences Politiques,[1] known as one of the founders and promoters of the study of commercial geography.

[4] Levasseur began teaching in the lycée at Alençon in 1852, and in 1857 became professor of rhetoric at Besançon.

In 1872 he was appointed professor of geography, history and statistics in the College de France, and subsequently became also professor at the Conservatoire des arts et métiers and at the École libre des sciences politiques, which later became known as the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris.

[6] Levasseur was one of the founders of the study of commercial geography, and became a member of the Council of Public Instruction and honorary president of the French geographical society.

[7] Levasseur was elected member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1894.