Alfred Merz
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Alfred Merz was an Austria
n geographer
, oceanographer and director of the Institute of Marine Science in Berlin. He died in Buenos Aires while on an expedition to survey the South Atlantic and is buried in Perchtoldsdorf. Merz Peninsula
is named after him.
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
n geographer
Geographer
A geographer is a scholar whose area of study is geography, the study of Earth's natural environment and human society.Although geographers are historically known as people who make maps, map making is actually the field of study of cartography, a subset of geography...
, oceanographer and director of the Institute of Marine Science in Berlin. He died in Buenos Aires while on an expedition to survey the South Atlantic and is buried in Perchtoldsdorf. Merz Peninsula
Merz Peninsula
Merz Peninsula is an irregular, ice-covered peninsula, about 15 miles long in an east-west direction and averaging 25 miles wide, between Hilton Inlet and Violante Inlet on the east coast of Palmer Land. It was discovered and photographed from the air in December 1940 by the US Antarctic...
is named after him.
Literary works
- Hydrographische Untersuchungen im Golf von Triest, 1911
- Die Oberflächentemperatur der Gewässer, 1920
- Die atlantische Vertikalzirkulation, 1922-1933 (with Georg WüstGeorg WüstGeorg Adolf Otto Wüst was a German oceanographer known for his work on the Atlantic Ocean.Wüst got his doctorate in 1919 at the University of Berlin. In 1925 he joined the German Atlantic expedition on the survey vessel Meteor...
)
Other readings
- Writings about exploration with the German research vessel Meteor, completed by Albert Josef Maria Defant
External Links
- Overview of Lectures by Alfred Merz from the University of Leipzig (1906).