Background
He was born in Dammer in Lower Silesia and attended the Maria-Magdalenen school in Wrocław.
geographer university professor
He was born in Dammer in Lower Silesia and attended the Maria-Magdalenen school in Wrocław.
He then studied at the University of Wrocław, where he gained a Doctor of Philosophy after his 1898 dissertation on the spread of marine Pennsylvanian rocks in South and East Asia.
His work was mostly on western Germany, especially the Lower Rhine basin. Later that year, he moved to the Geological-Palaeontological Institute in Bonn, where he remained until 1903 as an assistant to Clemens Schlüterritory He then became a geologist with the Prussian Geological Institute in Berlin and in 1923 became a department director
In 1919 he became associate professor at the Agricultural University of Berlin.
The rise of the Nazis led to his retirement in 1934.