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Alfred Wegener was born in Berlin on 1 November 1880, the youngest of five children, to Richard Wegener and his wife Anna. His father was a theologian and teacher of classical languages at the Joachimsthalschen Gymnasium [6] and Berlinisches Gymnasium zum Grauen Kloster.
He had a wife, Marie, and five children including his daughter Else, who married Köppen's student Alfred Wegener. Marie's sister Sophie and her children moved in with the Köppens in 1888. Marie's sister Sophie and her children moved in with the Köppens in 1888.
In December 1938, Harrer married Lotte Wegener (1920–1989), the daughter of Alfred Wegener, German polar researcher and originator of the theory of continental drift. Her father had died on a Greenland expedition when she was 10. Their son Peter Harrer was born in December 1939, three months after Harrer was arrested by the British.
His fourth wife was Greta Schröder (previously married to the dancer Ernst Matray), who had portrayed the leading lady in F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu (1922). The geographer Alfred Wegener and the meteorologist Kurt Wegener were his cousins, and the physicist Prof. Peter P. Wegener was his son.
The German Greenland Expedition (German: Deutsche Grönlandexpedition), also known as the Wegener Expedition, was an expedition to Greenland in 1930–1931. It was led by German scientist Alfred Wegener (1880–1930), who had previously taken part in two other ventures to Greenland.
The Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (German: Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung) is located in Bremerhaven, Germany, and a member of the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres.
Jul. 7—A York County man has pleaded not guilty to a murder charge tied to the death of his wife. James Crow, 40, was charged with knowing or intentional murder in April. The Maine Attorney ...
Alfred Wegener (1880–1930) [citation needed] Acoustical oceanography: Leonid Brekhovskikh (1917–2005) [87] Stratigraphy: Nicolas Steno (1638–1686) [81] Speleology: Édouard-Alfred Martel (1859–1938) Began the first systematic exploration of cave systems and promoted speleology as a field separate from geology.