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Albrecht Penck

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Albrecht Penck

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German geologist and geographer (1858–1945)

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Born
1858
Died
1945
Works
31

Top works

  • Landeskunde
  • Festband, Albrecht Penck
  • Thalgeschichte der obersten Donau
  • Die Halbinsel istrien
  • Atlas der österreichischen Alpenseen

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Type
Person
Country
DE
Active from
1939-10-05
Active to
2017-05-02

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Key facts

Born
25 September 1858 ( 1858-09-25 ) , Reudnitz , Kingdom of Saxony
Died
7 March 1945 (1945-03-07) (aged 86), Prague , Bohemia and Moravia , Nazi Germany
Education
University of Leipzig
Awards
Charles P. Daly Medal (1914) , Vega Medal (1923)
Fields
Geomorphology, Quaternary geology , climatology, political geography
Institutions
University of Vienna , Harvard University , Humboldt University
Doctoral advisor
Ferdinand Zirkel
Doctoral students
Jovan Cvijić , Johann Sölch , Eduard Brückner , Alfred Merz , Naomasa Yamasaki

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Encyclopedic overview

Albrecht Penck (25 September 1858 – 7 March 1945) was a German geographer and geologist and the father of Walther Penck.

Biography

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Albrecht Penck” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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