I like fantasy and adventure since I was a child, and I like to read the stories of explorers when I was a child. Sir sir john franklin, a famous British explorer, became his idol. He studied meteorology to prepare for future exploration. 1905, 25-year-old Wei Gena received a doctorate in meteorology. 1906, he finally realized his lofty ideal as a teenager, joined the famous Danish expedition and came to Greenland to inspect the weather and glaciers. Born in Berlin, graduated from Humboldt University in Berlin,

1880 1 1 was born in Berlin, Germany.

1905 received a doctorate in astronomy from Humboldt University in Berlin.

1906- 1908 participated in the Greenland expedition in Denmark. Explore northern Greenland.

1908 After returning from the expedition, I worked in Ma Bao University and sorted out a lot of information collected by the expedition until the outbreak of World War I (19 14 August-191811October

19 10, I happened to look at the map of the world during my illness and came up with the idea of continental drift hypothesis.

19 12 In June, the theory of continental drift hypothesis was put forward at the Geological Society of Frankfurt.

19 12 participated in the Koch-Greenberg expedition (expedition information is unknown) and crossed the Greenland ice sheet. Koch is a representative figure in the early study of polar glaciers. The expedition lasted for half a year.

19 13 married Ke Ben's daughter Ayers (a climatologist).

The Origin of Land and Sea was published in 19 15.

19 19 was hired as a professor at the University of Hamburg.

1924 was hired as a professor at Graz University.

1928 planned to explore Greenland again with Koch, but Koch died that year.

1929 made the third Greenland expedition with Johannes George, Frisroy and Lester sorgue, and established an investigation station.

1April, 930 10 went to Greenland by sailfish, 19301October, 30, arrived at Esmit camp and delivered materials.

1 930165438+1October1returned to the base after spending his 50th birthday in the camp and was killed on the way.

In May, Wei Gena's brother Kurt (a professor at Hamburg University) found Wei Gena's body.