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Albrecht Penck (25 September 1858 – 7 March 1945) 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 1885 to 1906, and in Berlin from 1906 to 1927.
Albrecht Penck (born Sept. 25, 1858, Leipzig—died March 7, 1945, Prague) was a geographer, who exercised a major influence on the development of modern German geography, and a geologist, who founded Pleistocene stratigraphy (the study of Ice Age Earth strata, deposited 11,700 to 2,600,000 years ago), a favored starting place for the study of ...
May 18, 2018 · PENCK, ALBRECHT. ( b. Reuditz [near Leipzig], Germany, 25 September 1858; d. Prague, Czechoslovakia, 7 March 1945) geomorphology, geology, paleoclimatology, hydrology, cartography. Born near the outer limit of the maximum southward advance of the Quaternary Scandinavian ice sheet, Penck took a lifelong interest in glacial deposits.
Feb 23, 2024 · Albrecht Penck’s geomorphic cycle, presented in his work “Morphological Analysis of Landforms” (1924), shares similarities with Davis’s model but introduces additional concepts. Penck introduced the concept of “parallel retreat” to explain how landscapes evolve in response to changes in base level. Stage. Description.
German painter, born in Dresden. He was born Ralf Winckler and took on his pseudonym in 1968, deriving the name from the geographer and Ice Age researcher Albrecht Penck (1858–1945), referring to his conception of art ‘as empirical science in the age of the Cold War’ (Gillen).
Jan 1, 2012 · This idea was adopted by the German Professor of forestry Albrecht Reinhard Benhardi (1797–1849) who, in a paper published in 1832, speculated about former polar ice caps reaching as far as the temperate zones of the globe.
Penck, Albrecht älˈbrĕkht pĕngk [ key], 1858–1945, German geographer and geologist. He was professor at the Univ. of Vienna (1885–1906) and at the Univ. of Berlin (1906–26) and was director (1906–22) of the institutes of oceanography and of geography, Berlin.
