Hans Kinzl

Hans Kinzl (1899–1979) was an Austrian geographer and mountain researcher.

Hans Kinzl was born in Upper Austria in 1899.

He then followed Sölch—who succeeded Alfred Hettner in Heidelberg—but returned to the University of Innsbruck where he became a professor of geography.

[1] Apart from the European Alps, his focus was on the Peruvian Andes where he conducted glaciological, geomorphological, agricultural and population research.

Hans Kinzl is best known for his 1930's maps of the Cordillera Blanca mountain range located in Peru.