Raisz, Erwin J.
RAISZ, ERWIN J.
RAISZ, ERWIN J. (1893–1968), U.S. geographer and authority on cartography. Raisz was born in Hungary, where he studied architecture and engineering. He settled in New York City in 1923 and studied geology at Columbia University. From 1925 to 1931 he was an instructor in this field, but during this period turned his attention to geography and cartography. He instituted Columbia's first course in cartography. From 1931 to 1950 he was a lecturer at the Institute of Geographical Exploration at Harvard. In 1945 he founded the cartography group of the Association of American Geographers and was its chairman until 1952.
Raisz was the author of General Cartography (1938); the Atlas of Global Geography (1944); Mapping the World (1956); Principles of Cartography (1962); and Atlas of Florida (1964).
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New York Times (Dec. 5, 1968).