Erich von Drygalski was born in
Koenigsberg,
Prussia in 1865 and died in 1949.
He became a professor of geography and geophysics in
Berlin. In 1901 he led his crew on a
South Pole Expedition and found new territory in
Antarctica. Between 1905 and 1931 he published 20 volumes documenting the expedition. From 1906 until his retirement he was a professor in
Munich. In 1910 he also took part in
Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin[?]'s expedition to
Spitsbergen.