Friedrich August Ravenstein

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Friedrich August Ravenstein

Inscription on the memorial stone at the Großer Feldberg observation tower:
The founder of gymnastics
in Frankfurt A / M
and the Feldberg gymnastics festival ,
the founder of the Taunus Club
AUGUST RAVENSTEIN
The Gymnastics Association Frankfurt A / M
The Taunus Club
1809 December 4th, 1909

Friedrich August Ravenstein (born December 4, 1809 in Frankfurt am Main ; † July 31, 1881 there ) was a German cartographer , topographer , publisher and bookseller .

Life

Friedrich August Ravenstein was baptized in Frankfurt as the son of Johann Zacharias Ravenstein and Maria Elisabetha Pichan. He began an apprenticeship with the publisher Carl Christian Jügel in 1825 and also trained as a geometer . In 1830 he founded Ravenstein's Geographische Verlagsanstalt , but from 1830 he also worked as a clerk in the course office of the Princely Thurn and Taxis General Post Office.

Grave in the Frankfurt main cemetery

Ravenstein was the founder of the Frankfurt gymnastics community in 1833 and founder of the Frankfurt gymnastics institute in 1838 and is therefore considered the Frankfurt gymnastics father. He also made a contribution to the introduction of gymnastics for girls and women, a revolutionary undertaking at the time. He also worked on the statutes of the first women's gymnastics club in Frankfurt. With the help of a so-called "Commission for the construction of a house on the Feldberg" , Ravenstein wanted to build a youth and hiking home and a lookout tower for the gymnasts on the Großer Feldberg in the Taunus ( Hesse ). The idea for the first German mountain gymnastics festival on June 23, 1844, the Feldbergfest , arose from the need to generate financial resources . The Feldberghaus was inaugurated on August 12, 1860. Thereupon Ravenstein withdrew, because the work of his commission was finished. He was instrumental in founding the Taunus Club and the Frankfurt Palmengarten . The Ravensteinstraße in Frankfurt's Ostend district and the Ravenstein Center, the club headquarters and sports facility of the Frankfurt Gymnastics Club in 1860 , are named after him.

Ravenstein was buried in the Frankfurt main cemetery. His grave is a listed building . It is an aedicule made of red sandstone . On the grave monument there is a portrait medallion of Gustav von Kress .

Works

  • Ravenstein's topographical pocket panorama of the Rhine from Mainz to Cologne. With humorous marginal drawings by JB Sonderland. Ullmann, Frankfurt a. M. 1845. Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf
  • Elevation map of Central Europe . Scale 1: 1000000, Geographical Institute by A. Ravenstein, Frankfurt a. M. 1859.

literature

  • Friedrich Ratzel :  Ravenstein, Friedrich August . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 30, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1890, p. 68 f.
  • Peter H. Meurer :  Ravenstein. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11202-4 , p. 221 f. ( Digitized version ). (Family item)
  • Rudolf Gasch : Handbook of the entire gymnastics , Pichler, Vienna and Leipzig, 1928
  • Franz Wilhelm Beck: Deutsches Turnertum , Limpert, Frankfurt am Main, 1953
  • Paul Mess: The Feldberg Turn Festival , Marburg 1958
  • Franz Wilhelm Beck: Mountain gymnastics festivals in Hessenland, contribution to Hessian gymnastics history , extended special print from: Der Hessische Turnverband, Handbuch, 1968, 58 pp.
  • Gertrud Pfister: 1848 and the beginnings of girls and women gymnastics, in: Deutsches Turnen (1981), 1, pp. 8-10; 2, pp. 29-30; 3, pp. 47-49
  • Festschrift for the 150th Feldberg Festival , Feldberg Festival Committee 2006

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Web links

Commons : Friedrich August Ravenstein  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from October 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Frankfurt Gymnastics History, Institute for Urban History, City of Frankfurt am Main @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stadtgeschichte-ffm.de
  2. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Report by August Ravenstein about the first girls' tour in 1846 of the Frankfurt Gymnastics Institute (V33 / 6), Institute for City History, Frankfurt am Main @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stadtgeschichte-ffm.de
  3. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Entry from August Ravenstein on the first gymnastics for adult women in 1848, Institute for City History, City of Frankfurt am Main @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stadtgeschichte-ffm.de
  4. ^ Ravenstein-Zentrum - Frankfurter Turnverein 1860. Retrieved on June 23, 2019 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Ravenstein, Friedrich August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ravenstein, August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cartographer and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH 4th December 1809
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH July 31, 1881
Place of death Frankfurt am Main