Alfred Merz

Alfred Merz

Alfred Merz (born January 24, 1880 in Perchtoldsdorf near Vienna , † August 16, 1925 in Buenos Aires ) was an Austrian - German oceanographer .

Life

Alfred Merz studied history and geography at the University of Vienna from 1901 to 1906 . After completing his studies, he was appointed to the Institute for Oceanography in Berlin ( German Reich ) in 1910 , where he began with the physical exploration of the seas. In 1911 he undertook research trips to the South Atlantic and the Mediterranean . He then devoted himself to the preparation of the German Atlantic Expedition , which was carried out from 1925 to 1927. Despite his poor health, Merz was the leader of the expedition on the surveying and research vessel Meteor until his death . The expedition was led to the end by Georg Wüst and Fritz Spieß . He is buried in his birthplace Perchtoldsdorf.

Appreciation

The Merz Peninsula on the east coast of Palmerland is named in his honor. In 1917 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

literature

• Claus Priesner:  Merz Alfred. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-428-00198-2 , pp. 196-198 ( digitized version ).
• F. Steinhauser:  Merz Alfred. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 6, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1975, ISBN 3-7001-0128-7 , p. 238 f. (Direct links on p. 238 , p. 239 ).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Great personalities in Perchtoldsdorf, accessed on May 12, 2010

Web links

• Literature by and about Alfred Merz in the catalog of the German National Library
• Newspaper article about Alfred Merz in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
• Overview of Alfred Merz's courses at the University of Leipzig (summer semester 1906 to winter semester 1906)