{{Short description|Austrian geographer and oceanographer (1880–1925)}} {{Expand German|topic=bio|Alfred Merz|date=December 2009}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Alfred Merz | image =Alfred Merz (cropped).jpg | image_size = | caption = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1880|1|24|df=y}} | birth_place = Perchtoldsdorf, Lower Austria, Austria | death_date = {{death date and age|1925|8|16|1880|1|24|df=y}} | death_place = Buenos Aires, Argentina | field = Geography, oceanography | work_institution = Institute of Marine Science, Berlin | alma_mater = University of Vienna | doctoral_advisor = | doctoral_students = | known_for = | prizes = | signature = Alfred Merz signature.jpg }} '''Alfred Merz''' (24 January 1880 &ndash; 16 August 1925) 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.<ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.bsh.de/de/Meeresnutzung/Wissenschaft/Forschungsschiffe/Schiffseinsatzplaene/Meteor_1924_1939.jsp|title = Geschichte der ersten Meteor|date = 10 March 2011|work = www.bsh.de|publisher = Bundesamt für Seeschifffahrt und Hydrographie (German Maritime and Hydrographic Agency)|language = German|trans-title = History of the first Meteor|accessdate = 6 April 2013|quote = shortend version from: Fritz Nieder, Willy Schroeder: Seevermessung - 25 Jahre im Deutschen Hydrographischen Institut (1945-1970), DHI, Hamburg 1971|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20081208033808/http://www.bsh.de/de/Meeresnutzung/Wissenschaft/Forschungsschiffe/Schiffseinsatzplaene/Meteor_1924_1939.jsp|archive-date = 2008-12-08|url-status = dead}}</ref><ref>[http://markt-perchtoldsdorf.at/index.php?option=com_content&catid=1&task=view&id=21&ASCDESC=ASC&ad_type=0&Itemid=79&p=p Great People of Perchtoldsdorf] Verified 2011-01-24.</ref> 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 (with Georg Wüst)

=== Other readings === * Writings about exploration with the German research vessel ''Meteor'', completed by Albert Josef Maria Defant

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==External links== * [http://histvv.uni-leipzig.de/dozenten/merz_a.html Overview of Lectures by Alfred Merz] from the University of Leipzig (1906). * {{PM20|FID=pe/022060}}

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