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Élisée Reclus  

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  • Élisée Reclus was an influential 19th-century geographer, even though he did not hold an official university position until late in his career. He was widely recognized for his scholarly writings on anarchism and geography, which informed his political activism. [Source: Encyclopedia of Geography; Reclus, ÉLisée (1830–1905)]

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