Alfred Merz

Alfred Merz was an Austrian geographer, oceanographer and director of the Institute of Marine Science in Berlin. He died of pneumonia in Buenos Aires while on an expedition to survey the South Atlantic and is buried in Perchtoldsdorf. Merz Peninsula is named after him.

Literary works

Hydrographische Untersuchungen im Golf von Triest, 1911
Die Oberflächentemperatur der Gewässer, 1920
Die atlantische Vertikalzirkulation, 1922-1933
Other readings
Writings about exploration with the German research vessel Meteor, completed by Albert Josef Maria Defant