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Albrecht Penck
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Person · Open Library
- 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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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- A global reference for human genetic variation
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- Peginterferon alfa-2b plus ribavirin compared with interferon alfa-2b plus ribavirin for initial treatment of chronic hepatitis C: a randomised trial
· 2001 · cited 4,860x
- The SCARE 2020 Guideline: Updating Consensus Surgical CAse REport (SCARE) Guidelines
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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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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Albrecht
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Nazi Germany
- Place of death
- Prague
- Child
- Walther Penck
- Occupation
- climatologist
- Educated at
- Leipzig University
- Employer
- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
- Languages spoken
- German
- Award
- Pour le Mérite
- Academic degree
- doctorate
- Doctoral advisor
- Ferdinand Zirkel
- Field of work
- geology
- Image
- Albrecht Penck.jpg
- Work location
- Munich
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- Albrecht Penck
- date of birth
- 1858-09-25
- date of death
- 1945-03-07
- name in native language
- Albrecht Penck
- writing language
- German
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- WikiProject Climate change
- influenced by
- Eduard Suess
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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
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