Jean-Bernard Racine Swiss geographer and academic dead at age 85

Jean-Bernard Racine, a Swiss geographer and academic, died on March 23, 2026, at the age of 85.

Born in Neuchâtel on April 29, 1940, he was a professor of geography at the Institute of Geography in the Faculty of Geosciences and Environment at the University of Lausanne and at HEC Lausanne Business School. He taught at the University of Sherbrooke from 1965 to 1969 and at the University of Ottawa from 1969 to 1973.

Racine received his first PhD in geography from the University of Aix-en-Provence in 1965 and his State PhD in geography from the University of Nice in 1973. He authored numerous articles and books in quantitative geography, epistemology and social geography, and received the Vautrin Lud International Geography Prize in 1997.

Jean-Bernard Racine (29 April 1940 – 23 March 2026) was a Swiss geographer and academic who was a professor of geography at the Institute of Geography, Faculty of Geosciences and Environment of the University of Lausanne (UNIL) and at HEC Lausanne Business School. He was a professor at the University of Sherbrooke between 1965 and 1969, and at the University of Ottawa from 1969 to 1973.