Eduard Brückner

Austrian geographer and climatologist

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Eduard Brückner was an Austrian meteorologist known for his work on climatic cycles. He is associated with the Brückner cycle, a climatic pattern characterized by recurring periods of approximately 35 years, marked by alternating warm and dry years, followed by cool and rainy years.1

Brückner also collaborated with geographer and geologist Albrecht Penck. Together, they published Die Alpen im Eiszeitalter (The Alps in the Ice Age), detailing four periods of Pleistocene glaciation in the Bavarian Alps.2

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Albrecht Penck
…in collaboration with his assistant, Eduard Brückner, in Die Alpen im Eiszeitalter, 3 vol. (1901–09; “The Alps in the Ice Age”). Penck also originated and promoted the 1:1,000,000-scale map of the Earth and published a pioneer work on geomorphology (the study of the Earth’s surface features), a term he is…
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…in collaboration with his assistant, Eduard Brückner, in Die Alpen im Eiszeitalter, 3 vol. (1901–09; “The Alps in the Ice Age”). Penck also originated and promoted the 1:1,000,000-scale map of the Earth and published a pioneer work on geomorphology (the study of the Earth’s surface features), a term he is…
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