Albrecht penck biography
Albrecht penck biography
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Albrecht Penck
German geologist and geographer
Albrecht Penck | |
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Penck in | |
| Born | 25 September &#;() Reudnitz, Kingdom of Saxony |
| Died | 7 March () (aged&#;86) Prague, Bohemia and Moravia, Nazi Germany |
| Education | University of Leipzig |
| Awards | Charles P.
Daly Medal() |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Geomorphology, Quaternary geology, climatology, political geography |
| Institutions | University of Vienna Harvard University Humboldt University |
| Doctoral advisor | Ferdinand Zirkel |
| Doctoral students | Jovan Cvijić,[1]Johann Sölch, Eduard Brückner, Alfred Merz, Naomasa Yamasaki |
Albrecht Penck (25 September &#; 7 March ) was a German geographer and geologist and the father of Walther Penck.
Biography
Born in Reudnitz near Leipzig, Penck became a university professor in Vienna, Austria, from to , and in Berlin from to There he was also the director of the Institute and Museum for Oceanography by He dedicated himself to geom