Ellen Louise Mertz, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Ellen Louise Mertz

Date of Birth: 20-Jul-1896

Place of Birth: Engestofte, Region Zealand, Denmark

Date of Death: 29-Dec-1987

Profession: geologist

Nationality: Denmark

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Ellen Louise Mertz (20 July 1896 — 29 December 1987) was one of Denmark's first female geologists and the country's first engineering geologist.
She undertook pioneering investigative work for the Danish State Railways in the late 1920s in connection with the construction of the Little Belt Bridge (completed in 1929) and was the first to propose what later became the Danish Geotechnical Institute.