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.Great People of Perchtoldsdorf
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Merz Peninsula Merz Peninsula () is an irregular, ice-covered peninsula, about long in an east–west direction and averaging wide, between Hilton Inlet and Violante Inlet on the east coast of Palmer Land, Antarctica. It was discovered and photographed from t ...

is named after him.

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* ''Hydrographische Untersuchungen im Golf von Triest'', 1911 * ''Die Oberflächentemperatur der Gewässer'', 1920 * ''Die atlantische Vertikalzirkulation'', 1922-1933 (with

Georg Wüst Georg Adolf Otto Wüst (born 15 June 1890 in Posen, Germany (now Poznan, Poland); died 8 November 1977 in Erlangen, Germany) was a German oceanographer. His pioneering work on the Atlantic Ocean provided a new view of the motions of water masses ...

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Overview of Lectures by Alfred Merz
from the University of Leipzig (1906). * 1880 births 1925 deaths 19th-century Austrian scientists 20th-century Austrian scientists 19th-century explorers 20th-century explorers Austrian explorers Austrian geographers Austrian oceanographers Austrian expatriates in Germany Austrian expatriates in Brazil People from Mödling District Deaths from pneumonia in Argentina 20th-century geographers {{ocean-stub

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