Alfred Merz Explained

Alfred Merz
Birth Date:	24 January 1880
Birth Place:	Perchtoldsdorf, Lower Austria, Austria
Death Place:	Buenos Aires, Argentina
Field:	Geography, oceanography
Work Institution:	Institute of Marine Science, Berlin
Alma Mater:	University of Vienna
Signature:	Alfred Merz signature.jpg

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)

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).

Notes and References

1. Web site: Geschichte der ersten Meteor. 10 March 2011. www.bsh.de. Bundesamt für Seeschifffahrt und Hydrographie (German Maritime and Hydrographic Agency). German. History of the first Meteor. 6 April 2013. shortend version from: Fritz Nieder, Willy Schroeder: Seevermessung - 25 Jahre im Deutschen Hydrographischen Institut (1945-1970), DHI, Hamburg 1971. https://web.archive.org/web/20081208033808/http://www.bsh.de/de/Meeresnutzung/Wissenschaft/Forschungsschiffe/Schiffseinsatzplaene/Meteor_1924_1939.jsp. 2008-12-08. dead.
2. http://markt-perchtoldsdorf.at/index.php?option=com_content&catid=1&task=view&id=21&ASCDESC=ASC&ad_type=0&Itemid=79&p=p Great People of Perchtoldsdorf