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Born August 30, 1888 • Vienna • Austria
Died September 29, 1923 (aged 35) • Stuttgart • Germany
Notable Family Members father Albrecht Penck
Subjects Of Study landform evolution
Ferdinand Paul Wilhelm, Freiherr von Richthofen
Ferdinand Paul Wilhelm, baron von Richthofen
German geographer
Penck, Albrecht
Albrecht Penck
geographer
Siegfried Passarge
German geographer and geomorphologist
Grove Karl Gilbert, 1891
Grove Karl Gilbert
American geologist
William Morris Davis
American geographer
Vasily Vasilyevich Dokuchayev
Russian ecologist
August Boeckh
German scholar
Johann Georg Cotta
German publisher [1631–1692]
Pina Bausch
German ballet dancer and choreographer
Johann Christoph Blumhardt
German theologian
Johann Heinrich Alsted
German logician
Johann Friedrich Cotta, Freiherr von Cottendorf
German publisher
Barthel Beham
German engraver
Bernard II
German duke
Johann Georg Cotta, Baron von Cottendorf
German publisher [1796–1863]
Friedrich William Heinrich Benda
German musician
Reinhard Gehlen
German general
Anton Fugger
German merchant
Rolf Hochhuth
German writer
Jakob Fugger II the Rich
German merchant