Alfred Albert Martineau

Alfred Albert Martineau (18 December 1859 in Artins – 25 January 1945 in Varennes) was a notable historian and colonial administrator in the French Colonial Empire.

Alfred Martineau

He wrote extensively on colonial affairs and the history of French colonial expansion, in particular a six-volume Histoire des colonies françaises et de l'expansion française dans le monde (1930–1934) co-authored with former French Foreign Minister Gabriel Hanotaux.[1] Upon retirement from colonial service in 1921 he taught colonial history at the Collège de France until 1935.[2]

He was a founding member of the Société de l'histoire de l'Inde française, the Societe francaise d'Histoire d'Outre-Mer (1912) and the Académie des sciences coloniales (1922).[3]

See also

References
  1. Alfred Martineau / Œuvres fr.Wikisource
  2. Dictionnaire des orientalistes de langue française edited by François Pouillon
  3. Martineau, Alfred Albert Sociétés savantes de France
  4. Henige, David P. (1970). Colonial governors from the fifteenth century to the present: a comprehensive list. University of Texas: University of Wisconsin Press. p. 33. ISBN 9780299054403.


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