Friedrich Karl Albrecht (Albrecht) Penck (1858–1945)

German geographer and geologist. Studied chemistry, botany, mineralogy, and geology at Leipzig and Munich, 1875–8. Assistant geologist, Land Survey of Saxony, 1878–80. Survey mapping for Bavarian Geological State Research from 1880; habilitated in geography at Munich. Professor of physical geography, Vienna, 1885–1906. Professor and director of the Geographical Institute and the Museum of Oceanography, Berlin, 1906–26. Noted for his work on stratigraphy.