!!!Penck, Albrecht

b. Reudnitz near Leipzig (Germany), Sept. 25, 1858, 
d. Prague (Czech Republic), March 7, 1945, geographer, 
geomorphologist, father of Walther  Penck. 1885-1906 university 
professor in Vienna, 1906-1927 in Berlin, where he headed the 
Institute and Museum of Oceanology (until 1918). Specialised in 
geomorphology and climatology and raised the "Viennese School" of 
physical geography to international status.

!Works
Morphologie der Erdoberflaeche, 2 vols., 1894; Die Alpen im 
Eiszeitalter, 3 vols., 1909 (with E. Brueckner).



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