Sophus Ruge

Ruge was born in the Frisian town of Dorum located near Geestemünde in the Kingdom of Hanover.

During the Battle of Waterloo, he was an English field doctor, he later moved to Cuxhaven and in 1817, he was physician in Dorum, there he later married the lawyer's daughter Elise Hennings (1804–?).

He took charge of producing the second edition of the review and enlarged Geschichte der Erdkunde , by Peschel, published in 1887 which he earned him a recognition and consideration of geographers and historians of the time.

He was one of the most listened critics in the area of historiography of European expansion, with the notable erudition on the security of his options.

Sächsischen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig (Kingdom of Saxony Academy of Sciences of Leipzig) and the Saxon Academy of Sciences (Sächsischen Akademie der Wissenschafte) and many other geographic societies in Germany and abroad.