I have loved fantasy and adventure since I was a child. I also loved reading stories about explorers in my childhood. The famous British explorer John Franklin became his idol. To prepare for future expeditions, he studied meteorology. In 1905, at the age of 25, Wegener received a doctorate in meteorology. In 1906, he finally realized his lofty ideals as a boy and joined the famous Danish expedition to Greenland to engage in meteorological and glacial surveys. Born in Berlin, graduated from Humboldt University of Berlin,
Born on November 1, 1880 in Berlin, Germany.
Received a doctorate in astronomy from the Humboldt University of Berlin in 1905.
1906-1908 Participated in the Danish expedition to Greenland. Northern Greenland adventure.
After returning from the expedition in 1908, he took a job at Marble University and organized a large amount of information collected by the expedition until the outbreak of World War I (August 1914-November 1918).
In 1910, while he was ill, he accidentally looked through a world map and came up with the idea of ??the continental drift hypothesis.
The continental drift hypothesis theory was proposed at the Frankfurt Geological Society in June 1912.
In 1912, he participated in the Koch-Greenberg expedition (the information of the expedition is unknown) and crossed the Greenland ice sheet. Koch is a representative of research on the early stages of polar glaciation. The expedition lasted half a year.
In 1913, he married Else, daughter of K?bain (climatologist).
"The Origin of Land and Sea" was published in 1915.
In 1919, he was appointed professor at the University of Hamburg.
In 1924, he was appointed professor at the University of Graz.
Another Greenland expedition with Koch was planned in 1928, but Koch died that year.
In 1929, he conducted the third Greenland expedition with Johannes George, Frith Roy, and Erst Sorg and established an investigation station.
On April 1, 1930, he took the "Sailfish" to Greenland and arrived at Esmet Camp on October 30, 1930 to deliver supplies.
On November 1, 1930, he was killed on the way back to the base after spending his 50th birthday in the camp.
In May 1931, Wegener's brother Kurt (a professor at the University of Hamburg) discovered Wegener's body.