Albrecht Penck (25 September 1858 – 7 March 1945) was a German geographer and geologist and the father of Walther Penck. Born in Reudnitz near Leipzig...
13 KB (1,285 words) - 12:55, 13 March 2024
erosion. Walther Penck was born in Vienna as the son of German geographer Albrecht Penck. He obtained a PhD by studying petrology at the Heidelberg University...
13 KB (1,297 words) - 06:03, 9 May 2024
The Albrecht-Penck-Medaille is a scientific award of the Deutsche Quartärvereinigung (German Quaternary Union), given to an individual who made outstanding...
2 KB (198 words) - 18:06, 10 November 2023
Evans Piedmont Glacier (redirect from Albrecht Penck Glacier)
the south. Named coastal features include Tripp Bay, Tripp Island, Albrecht Penck Glacier, Depot Island, Cape Ross, Gregory Island and Cape Archer. 76°37′S...
6 KB (838 words) - 17:00, 31 January 2024
Penck is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: A. R. Penck (1939–2017), German painter, sculptor and printmaker Albrecht Penck (1858–1945)...
350 bytes (82 words) - 09:09, 20 April 2022
1911–1914, under Mawson, and named for Albrecht Penck, an internationally known German geographer. Cape Penck 66°43′45″S 87°55′20″E / 66.72917°S 87...
756 bytes (99 words) - 08:05, 2 May 2024
canoer and rower Albrecht Penck, (1858–1945), German geographer and geologist Albrecht Pfister, (c. 1420–c. 1466), German printer Albrecht Ritschl, (1822–1889)...
6 KB (744 words) - 22:07, 27 March 2024
(1865–1949) was his supervisor. Haushofer then worked as an assistant for Albrecht Penck. A fellow student in geopolitics was Rudolf Hess, a very early follower...
9 KB (899 words) - 02:38, 29 May 2024
Artists, now under the artistic pseudonym A. R. Penck. which was chosen after the geologist Albrecht Penck. Since 1969, he had increasingly problems with...
13 KB (1,533 words) - 12:23, 1 April 2024
internationally agreed standards. It was first proposed by the German geographer Albrecht Penck in 1891. The Central Bureau of the Map of the World was established...
11 KB (1,186 words) - 13:41, 14 March 2024
coincides with the Saale glaciation of North Germany. The name goes back to Albrecht Penck and Eduard Brückner who named this cold period after the river Riss...
11 KB (1,317 words) - 19:49, 4 January 2024
of electricity reportedly date back to 1912 from Berlin geographer Albrecht Penck. The subject was first discussed in more detail by John Ball in 1927...
12 KB (1,528 words) - 13:18, 9 May 2024
Land at Spitsbergen, Svalbard. It is named after German geographer Albrecht Penck. The glacier has a length of about 22 kilometers, and is situated west...
1 KB (108 words) - 11:55, 22 January 2021
the third youngest glacial stage in the Alps. Its name was coined by Albrecht Penck and Eduard Brückner, who named it after the Swabian river, the Mindel...
3 KB (308 words) - 19:46, 4 January 2024
(1982), p. 29 Şengör (1982), p. 31 Bremer, Hanna (1983). "Albrecht Penck (1858–1945) and Walther Penck (1888–1923), two German geomorphologists". Zeitschrift...
45 KB (4,762 words) - 14:53, 2 June 2024
and vegetation. An early attempt at morphoclimatic zoning is that of Albrecht Penck in 1910, who divided Earth in three zones depending on the evaporation-precipitation...
18 KB (1,818 words) - 14:07, 24 May 2024
(1938–1939), led by Capt. Alfred Ritscher, and named for German geographer Albrecht Penck. Maps of the German Antarctic Expedition incorrectly represent this...
1 KB (217 words) - 16:03, 15 January 2023
anthropogeography")—a term coined by University of Vienna geographer Albrecht Penck in 1924—and geographical cultural or human ecology (Harlan H. Barrows...
4 KB (497 words) - 03:38, 6 June 2024
with Zeune were Hermann Wagner, Theobald Fischer, Marion Newbigin, and Albrecht Penck, while Austrian diplomat Johann Georg von Hahn, in 1869, for the same...
119 KB (10,647 words) - 21:04, 5 June 2024
vessel operated by the Land of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, named Professor Albrecht Penck. The ship was built in 1951 at the Sachsenberg-Werke [de] shipyard....
12 KB (1,510 words) - 15:57, 15 March 2024
Günz-Kaltzeit, also Günz-Glazial, Günz-Komplex and Günz-Eiszeit) goes back to Albrecht Penck and Eduard Brückner, who named this ice age after the River Günz in...
6 KB (635 words) - 16:35, 27 December 2023
who named this feature for German geographer Albrecht Penck. List of glaciers in the Antarctic "Penck Glacier, Antarctica". Geographical Names. Retrieved...
2 KB (91 words) - 00:59, 29 April 2022
the vessel Alan Kurdi (formerly the oceanographic vessel Professor Albrecht Penck) in July 2021 and renamed the ship Resq People; it began operating on...
4 KB (351 words) - 18:00, 23 January 2024
4 km (13,000 feet). It was named after Albrecht Penck (1858–1945), a German geographer and geologist. "Mons Penck". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature...
1 KB (122 words) - 10:47, 14 February 2019
184–185. ISBN 0-582-30156-4. Bremer, Hanna (1983). "Albrecht Penck (1858-1945) and Walther Penck (1888-1923), two german geomorphologists". Zeitschrift...
12 KB (1,529 words) - 04:38, 29 November 2023
(Greece, fl. c. 150) Ceri Peach (Wales, 1939–2018) Albrecht Penck (Germany, 1858–1945) Walther Penck (Germany, 1888–1923) Jocelyne Pérard (France, born...
23 KB (2,683 words) - 12:13, 28 May 2024
Anne Frank, German-born Jewish diarist (typhus) (born 1929) 7 March — Albrecht Penck, German geographer and geologist (born 1858) 14 March – Mary Helen Young...
25 KB (2,815 words) - 20:33, 8 January 2024
under Albrecht Penck's tutelage he was encouraged to focus on the study of karst phenomena in the northern Dinaric Alps which was a region Penck was already...
31 KB (3,270 words) - 21:48, 12 October 2023
generation of electricity date back to 1912 from Berlin geographer Albrecht Penck. The subject was discussed in more detail by Dr. John Ball in 1927,...
24 KB (2,908 words) - 18:54, 11 May 2024
(1890) Adrien de Gerlache (1900) Albert I, Prince of Monaco (1891) Albrecht Penck (1899) Alick Buchanan-Smith (1974) Angus Buchanan (1924) Anne Glover...
17 KB (2,034 words) - 12:48, 26 October 2023