PENCK, ALBRECHT

älˈbrĕkht pĕngk, 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. He is noted for his study of glaciation (especially in the Alps), for his pioneer classification of land forms, and for his work in the development of modern regional geography. Outstanding among his many works is Morphologie der Erdoberfläche [morphology of the earth's surface] (1894, rev. ed. 1928).

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books on: Penck Albrecht  - 43 results

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The History of the Study of Landforms or The Development of Geomorphology 1890-1950 - Vol. 3
Book by Robert P.Beckinsale; Routledge, 1991
Subjects: Geomorphology--History
Plate 10.2 Walther Penck in the Puna de Atacama, 1913 Source: Courtesy Helmut Penck The American, now over 70 years old, was...always incorporated in the writings of Walther Penck. Albrecht survived to the ripe old age of 87, having...
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The History of the Study of Landforms - Vol. 2
Book by Richard J.Chorley, Robert P.Beckinsale, Antony J.Dunn; Routledge, 1973
Subjects: Davis, William Morris--1850-1934, Geomorphology--History
...Roderick (1891-1955), 133 , 134 Penck, Albrecht (1858-1945), 243 , 249 , 269...use of cycle concept, 276 , 501 Penck, Walther (1888-1923), xix...478 , 537 , 551 ; see also A. Penck on inselberg landscapes, 671 on...
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American Empire: Roosevelt's Geographer and the Prelude to Globalization
Book by Neil Smith; University of California Press, 2003
Subjects: Bowman, Isaiah--1878-1950, Geographers--United States--Biography, Geography--United States--History--20th Century, Globalization--History--20th Century
...Charles, 45 Pelzer, Betty, 267 Pelzer, Karl, 257 , 258 , 267 , 296 , 298 , 302 Penck, Albrecht, 38 , 94 , 277 78, 280 , 282 Penck, Walter, 278 Penck Davis debates, 277 79, 282 Pendleton, Robert L., 260 , 261 , 302 peneplanation...
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Geography in the Twentieth Century: A Study of Growth, Fields, Techniques, Aims, and Trends
Book by Thomas Griffith Taylor; Philosophical Library, 1957
Subjects: Geography, Geography--History
...Humboldt pictured teeming cities in the Amazon Valley. Albrecht Penck was of the opinion that the humid tropics of America...observations. 3 ____________________ 1 Penck Albrecht, " Die Tragfahigkeit der Erde ", in Lebensraumfragen...
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Under the Map of Germany: Nationalism and Propaganda, 1918-1945
Book by Guntram Henrik Herb; Routledge, 1997
Subjects: Europe--Relations--Germany, Geopolitics--Germany--History, Germany--Historical Geography, Germany--Politics And Government--1918-1933, Germany--Politics And Government--1933-1945, Germany--Relations--Europe, Nationalism--Germany, Propaganda, German
...and A.H. Ziegfeld, 62-73. Breslau: F. Hirt Penck, Albrecht and Hans Fischer ca. 1925 . Der deutsche Volks...Berlin: Verein fur das Deutschtum im Ausland. Penck, Albrecht and Herbert Heyde 1919 . Karte der Verbreitung von...
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Cartographic Ideals and Geopolitical Realities: International Maps of the World from the 1890s to the Present
Journal article by Alastair Pearson, D.R. Fraser Taylor, Karen D. Kline, Michael Heffernan; The Canadian Geographer, Vol. 50, 2006
Subjects: Cartography--Forecasts and trends, Cartography--History, Maps (Geography)--Forecasts and trends, Maps (Geography)--History, Maps--Forecasts and trends, Maps--History
...a more systematic fashion by the German geographer Albrecht Penck in a famous presentation to the Fifth International Geographical Congress (IGC) in Bern, Switzerland (Penck 1892). Penck argued that a new 1:1 million map series should...
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The Politics of the Map in the Early Twentieth Century
Journal article by Michael Heffernan; Cartography and Geographic Information Science, Vol. 29, 2002
Subjects: Cartography, Maps
...by the leading German geographer Albrecht Penck, then at the University of Vienna...Geographical Congress in Berne, Penck argued that a new world map should...mapmaking agencies of the major powers (Penck 1892; 1893). The IMW (as it was...
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Geographers: Biobibliographical Studies, 1977-2000
Journal article by Patrick H. Armstrong, Geoffrey J. Martin; The Geographical Review, Vol. 90, 2000
...Albert Demangeon (France), Vasily V. Dokuchaev (Russia), Fridtjof Nansen (Norway), Helge Nelson (Sweden), Albrecht Penck (Germany), A. Grenfell Price (Australia), Eugene Romer (Poland), Mary Somerville (England), and Naomasa...
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The Impact on Topographic Mapping of Developments in Land and Air Survey: 1900-1939
Journal article by Peter Collier; Cartography and Geographic Information Science, Vol. 29, 2002
Subjects: Cartography--History, Photogrammetry, Topographic maps
...as a prerequisite for development (Penck 1893), the mapping technology of...topographic cartography. References Albrecht, O. 1969. Das Kriegsvermessungswesen...Geographical Journal 56: 201-6. Penck, A. 1893. The construction of a...


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magazine articles on: Penck Albrecht  - 2 results

 
 
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The Agnostic Cartographer: How Google's Open-Ended Maps Are Embroiling the Company in Some of the World's Touchiest Geopolitical Disputes
Magazine article by John Gravois; Washington Monthly, Vol. 42, July 2010
Subjects: Digital map services--Laws, regulations and rules, Digital map services--Political aspects, Geography, Political--Forecasts and trends, Google Inc.--Ethical aspects, Google Inc.--Public relations, Google Maps (Map database)--Laws, regulations and rules, Google Maps (Map database)--Political aspects, Information services industry--Ethical aspects, Information services industry--Public relations, Information services--Ethical aspects, Information services--Public relations, Political geography--Forecasts and trends
...progressive scientific ethic in mapmaking found its loftiest expression in 1891, when a German geographer by the name of Albrecht Penck proposed to the worlds cartographers that they create a single "International Map of the World," composed of 2...
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Jorg Immendorff: Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
Magazine article by Isabelle Graw; Artforum International, Vol. 44, January 2006
Subjects: Architectural firms--Conferences, meetings and seminars, Architectural practice--Conferences, meetings and seminars, Architectural services--Conferences, meetings and seminars
...but we also find Immendorff and East German painter A. R. Penck hugging, allegorizing an end to the conflict (auf gehts Come...Duchamp. Recently, he has been communing with Sigmar Polke and Albrecht Durer, appropriating benday dots from the former and images...


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encyclopedia articles on: Penck Albrecht  - 3 results

 
 
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Penck, Albrecht
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
PENCK, ALBRECHT al brekht pengk, 1858 1945, German geographer and geologist. He was professor at the Univ. of Vienna (1885 1906) and at the...
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Map
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Accordingly, at several meetings of the International Geographical Congress (1891, 1909, 1913), the German Albrecht Penck presented and perfected plans for a world map on a scale of 1:1,000,000, to consist of about 1,500 sheets...
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Geography
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...advancement of geography and to the development of geographic concepts have been made by Ferdinand von Richthofen , Albrecht Penck , Friedrich Ratzel , Alfred Hettner , Karl Haushofer , and Walter Christaller in Germany; Paul Vidal de la Blache...


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