Penck, Albrecht

Penck, Albrecht, b 25 September 1858 in Reudnitz, Saxony, d 7 March 1945 in Prague. German geographer and geologist; member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society. He was a professor at Vienna University (where he taught, among others, Stepan Rudnytsky) and Berlin University and one of the first geographers to treat Ukraine as a geographic and sociopolitical entity distinct from Russia. His article on Ukraine, which appeared in Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft für Erdkunde zu Berlin (1916), was reprinted separately and distributed during the negotiations leading to the Peace Treaty of Brest-Litovsk.

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 3 (1993).]