Alfred Merz (24 January 1880 – 16 August 1925) was an Austrian
geographer
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,
oceanographer
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and director of the Institute of Marine Science in Berlin. He died of pneumonia in Buenos Aires while on an expedition to survey the South Atlantic and is buried in Perchtoldsdorf.
Great People of Perchtoldsdorf
Verified 2011-01-24. Merz Peninsula
The Merz Peninsula () is an irregular, ice-covered peninsula, about long in an east–west direction and averaging wide, between Hilton Inlet and Violante Inlet on the east coast of Palmer Land, Antarctica.
Location
The Merz Peninsula is ...
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 Wüst
Georg Adolf Otto Wüst (15 June 1890 - 8 November 1977) was a German oceanographer. His pioneering work on the Atlantic Ocean provided a new view of the motions of water masses between the northern and southern hemispheres and the first evidence ...
)
Other readings
* Writings about exploration with the German research vessel ''Meteor'', completed by Albert Josef Maria Defant
References
External links
Overview of Lectures by Alfred Merz
from the University of Leipzig (1906).
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1880 births
1925 deaths
Geographers from Austria-Hungary
20th-century Austrian scientists
20th-century explorers
Austrian explorers
Austrian geographers
Austrian oceanographers
Austrian expatriates in Germany
Austrian expatriates in Brazil
People from Mödling District
Deaths from pneumonia in Argentina
20th-century Austrian geographers
Explorers from Austria-Hungary
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