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Ernst Georg Ravenstein
Ernst Georg Ravenstein (Ernest George) FRSGS (30 December – 13 March ) was a German-English geographer and cartographer.
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.
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Ravenstein was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, to a family of cartographers. He spent most of his adult life in England in a house at Lorn Road, Lambeth, but he died in Germany, his country of birth, on 13 March [1]
Work on geography
When he was 18 years old he became a pupil of Dr.
August Heinrich Petermann. After moving to England, Ravenstein became a naturalisedBritish Subject and was in the service of the Topographical Department of the British War Office for 20 years, from to A long-serving member of the councils of the Royal Statistical and Royal Geographical Societies, he was also Professor of Geography at Bedford College in – He was the first to receive the Victo
