Ernst Georg Ravenstein

Ernst Georg Ravenstein (30 December 1834 – 13 March 1913) was a German-English geographer and cartographer.Ravenstein was born in Frankfurt, Germany. When he was 18 years old, he became a pupil of Dr. August Heinrich Petermann. After moving to England, Ravenstein was for 20 years (1855–75) in the service of the Topographical Department of the War Office. For long on the councils of the Royal Statistical and Royal Geographical Societies, he was also professor of geography at Bedford College in 1882–83. He was the first to receive the Victoria gold medal of the Royal Geographical Society (1902). His "Systematic Atlas" (1884) puts in practice many of the author's helpful ideas as to methods of teaching cartography. His "Map of Equatorial Africa" (1884) was the most notable map of a large part of the continent on a large scale that had been made up to that time. Ravenstein published also:
* "Handy Volume Atlas" (1895; seventh edition, 1907)
* "A Life's Work" (1908)
* "The New Census Physical, Pictorial, and Descriptive Atlas of the World" (1911)

In 1861 Ernst Ravenstein established the German Gymnastics Society, a sporting association, in London [CTRL (Channel Tunnel Rail Link) Exhibition in German Gymnasium, January 2008] . He was involved, along with William Penny Brookes and John Hulley, in establishing the first National Olympian Games in 1866.

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