Ancel, Jacques

He studied history and geography, taught. Member of the First World War. He was wounded three times, after which he was seconded to the headquarters of the French Eastern Army, fighting the Ottoman Empire in the Balkans.

After the war, he was engaged in mediation missions to establish peaceful relations between the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes ( Kingdom of Yugoslavia ) and Bulgaria , which had territorial disputes.

In 1930, Ancel defended his doctorate at La Macédoine, étude de colonization contemporaine ( Macedonia , the Study of Modern Colonization).

He lectured at the University of Paris and the Institute of Higher International Studies.

Knight of the Legion of Honor .

Author of a number of books on the history and relations of the Balkan peoples, political geography and geopolitics of the Balkans.

• Une page inédite de Saint-Simon, (1901),
• La Formation de la colonie du Congo Français (1843–1882), (Paris, 1902),
• L'unité de la politique bulgare, 1870-1919, (1919),
• Les Travaux et les jours de l'Armée d'Orient. 1915-1918, (1921),
• Manuel historique de la question d'Orient (1792-1923), (1923),
• Peuples et nations des Balkans (1926),
• Histoire contemporaine depuis le milieu du XIXe siècle (avec la collaboration d'Henri Calvet). Manuel de politique européenne, histoire diplomatique de l'Europe (1871-1914), (1929),
• La Macédoine, étude de colonization contemporaine (1930),
• Géopolitique, (Paris, 1936),
• Géographie des frontières, (Paris, 1938),
• Manuel Géographique de politique européenne, (Paris, 1940),
• Slaves et Germains, (Paris, 1945).

• Jacques Ancel (English)