Ernst Georg Ravenstein

Who was Ernst Georg Ravenstein?

Ernst Georg Ravenstein was a German-English geographer cartographer and promoter of physical exercise. As a geographer he was less of a traveller than a researcher; his studies led mainly in the direction of cartography and the history of geography.

Ravenstein was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany to a family of cartographers. Although he spent most of his adult life in England, with a house at Lorn Rd, Lambeth; he died in his birth country of Germany on 13 March 1913.