Erich von Drygalski collection 1900-1933

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Erich von Drygalski collection 1900-1933

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SNAC Resource ID: 6285294

Scott Polar Research Institute

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German South Polar Expedition 1901-1903

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Vanhffen Ernst b 1858

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Von Drygalski Erich Dagobert 1865-1949

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Erich Dagobert von Drygalski

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Erich Dagobert von Drygalski was born on 9 February 1865 in Knigsberg, East Prussia. He was educated at the universities of Knigsberg, Bonn, Leipzig and Berlin, before working as an assistant at the Institute of Geodesy at Potsdam. In 1891, he undertook a preliminary expedition to West Greenland sponsored by the Gesellschaft fr Erdkunde zu Berlin to select a suitable site for a major study of the motion of the Greenland ice cape in preparation for the German glaciologica...