Ernst Georg Ravenstein

Ernst Georg Ravenstein
Born
Ernst Georg Ravenstein

(1834-12-30)30 December 1834
Died13 March 1913(1913-03-13) (aged 78)
NationalityPrussian, English
Known forHuman migration (The Laws of Migration)
AwardsVictoria gold medal of the Royal Geographical Society
Scientific career
FieldsCartography, sociology, statistics
InstitutionsTopographical department of the War Office (1855-1872)
Professor of Geography at Bedford College, London (1882-1883)
Ernst Ravestein's Ethnographical Map of Turkey in Europe

Ernst Georg Ravenstein (Ernest George) FRSGS (30 December 1834 – 13 March 1913) 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.

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 1913.[1]

  1. ^ Dr. E. G. Ravenstein, Obituaries, The Times, Wednesday, 19 March 1913; pg. 9