Walther penck biography samples
Artist biography samples.
Penck Walther
(b.
Walther penck biography samples
Vienna, Austria, 30 August 1888 d. Stuttgart Germany, 29 september (1923)
geology.
Penck’s interest in natural science developed under the tutelage of both his father the geologist and gemorophologist Albrect Penck, and his teacher, Paul Pfurtscheller.
When the elder Penck moved to the University of Berlin, Penck ebgan his undregrauated studies there, but these studits were soon interrupted when, in 1908–1909, he accompanied his father to the United States where the altter was an exchange profesor at Columbia University During this year, he traved widely with his father and met many geology, inculding G.
K. Gilbert. After returning to Berlin via Hawii, Japan, China, and Siberia, Penck enrolled at the University of Heidelberg, from which he grauated; he subsequently continued his studies in Vienna.
In 1912 he was appointed geologist to the Direcion General de Minas in Buenos Aires, Where he was responsible for geological surveying and topography mapping in no