Arthur wegener6/30/2023 ![]() In that same year 1906, Wegener participated in the first of his four Greenland expeditions, later regarding this experience as marking a decisive turning point in his life. First Greenland expedition and years in Marburg On a balloon ascent undertaken to carry out meteorological investigations and to test a celestial navigation method using a particular type of quadrant (“Libellenquadrant”), the Wegener brothers set a new record for a continuous balloon flight, remaining aloft 52.5 hours from April 5–7, 1906. The two pioneered the use of weather balloons to track air masses. He worked there with his brother Kurt, two years his senior, who was likewise a scientist with an interest in meteorology and polar research. In 1905 Wegener became an assistant at the Aeronautisches Observatorium Lindenberg near Beeskow. ![]() Wegener had always maintained a strong interest in the developing fields of meteorology and climatology and his studies afterwards focused on these disciplines. He obtained a doctorate in astronomy in 1905 based on a dissertation written under the supervision of Julius Bauschinger at Friedrich Wilhelms University (today Humboldt University), Berlin. From 1902 to 1903 during his studies he was an assistant at the Urania astronomical observatory. Afterward he studied Physics, meteorology and Astronomy in Berlin, Heidelberg and Innsbruck. Wegener attended school at the Kollnisches Gymnasium on Wallstrasse in Berlin (a fact which is memorialized on a plaque on this protected building, now a school of music), graduating as the best in his class. Today there is an Alfred Wegener Memorial site and tourist information office in a nearby building that was once the local schoolhouse. In 1886 his family purchased a former manor house near Rheinsberg, which they used as a vacation home. ![]() His father, Richard Wegener, was a theologian and teacher of classical languages at the Berlinisches Gymnasium zum Grauen Kloster. Alfred Wegener was born in Berlin on 1 November 1880 as the youngest of five children in a clergyman's family. ![]()
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