Alfred Merz

Austrian geographer and oceanographer (1880–1925)

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Alfred Merz

Born	(1880-01-24)24 January 1880 Perchtoldsdorf, Lower Austria, Austria
Died	16 August 1925(1925-08-16) (aged 45) Buenos Aires, Argentina
Alma mater	University of Vienna
Scientific career
Fields	Geography, oceanography
Institutions	Institute of Marine Science, Berlin

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Alfred Merz (24 January 1880 – 16 August 1925) was an Austrian geographer, oceanographer 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.^[1]^[2] Merz Peninsula 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)

References

^ "Geschichte der ersten Meteor" [History of the first Meteor]. www.bsh.de (in German). Bundesamt für Seeschifffahrt und Hydrographie (German Maritime and Hydrographic Agency). 10 March 2011. Archived from the original on 2008-12-08. Retrieved 6 April 2013. shortend version from: Fritz Nieder, Willy Schroeder: Seevermessung - 25 Jahre im Deutschen Hydrographischen Institut (1945-1970), DHI, Hamburg 1971
^ Great People of Perchtoldsdorf Verified 2011-01-24.

External links

Overview of Lectures by Alfred Merz from the University of Leipzig (1906).
Newspaper clippings about Alfred Merz in the 20th Century Press Archives of the ZBW