Albert Ronsin (French pronunciation: [albɛʁ ʁɔ̃sɛ̃]; 20 July 1928 – 2 July 2007) was a 20th-century French scholar, historian, librarian, and curator in Saint-Dié-des-Vosges.
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Born | Blois, France | 20 July 1928
Died | 2 July 2007 Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, France | (aged 78)
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He undertook historical research, especially about the Age of Discovery. He was particularly interested in the history of the name America given by Martin Waldseemüller to the continent that Amerigo Vespucci passed through and described. He studied globes and World maps of the early sixteenth, including Johannes Schöner globe created by Johann Schoener and Waldseemüller's maps.
He also studied the history of the Gymnase vosgienMatthias Ringmann and Vautrin Lud .
(Gymnasium Vosagense), a cultural and scientific association founded circa 1500 in Saint-Dié and from which came many humanists, includingHe also published more than a hundred essays, notes and articles in various journals, annals, bulletins and historical, scientific and economic works.[1]