![]() Koch whereby they crossed the North of Greenland. From 1912 to 1913, he took part in another Danish Greenland expedition organized by J. His complete theory concerning continental drift can be found in his most important book entitled Die Entstehung der Kontinente und Ozeane, which came out in 1915. On January 6, he gave his first presentation dealing with the continental drift theory at a meeting of the geological society in Frankfurt am Main. In 1911, his well known book Thermodynamik der Athmospare appeared. From 1917 to 1919 he was a Professor in Marburg. In 1909, he handed in a further thesis (Habilitation) at the University of Marburg, and became Privatdozent there, which implies the right to lecture ( venia legendi) and can be compared to an associate professorship. ![]() From 1906 to 1908, he took part in a Danish expedition to Greenland organized by Mylius-Erichsen. In the same year, he made acquaintance with the well-known meteorologist Wladimir Koppen. Together with his brother Kurt, he set the world record for the longest-lasting balloon trip in 1906. For the following 2 years, like his brother Kurt, he was assistant at the Aeronautischen Observatorium Lindenberg. Later he attended the Universities of Innsbruck and Berlin, and he successfully defended his doctoral thesis on November 24,1904, at the University of Berlin (magna cum laude). In 1899, he took his school-leaving exam from the Köllnischen Gymnasium in Berlin, and directly went on to University of Heidelberg to study the natural sciences, and in particular astronomy. He was the youngest of their five children. Richard Wegener and Anna Wegener, nee Schwarz. His parents were preacher and orphanage director Dr. Alfred Lothar Wegener was born on the 1st of November 1880 in Berlin, and he died at the end of November 1930 in Greenland.
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