Analysis Visit HistoryofScience.com » « back to the full timeline The Theory of Continental Drift (1912) German scientist, geophysicist, and meteorologist Alfred Wegener published from Gotha , Germany "Die Entstehung der Kontinente" in Mitteilung aus Justus Perthes’ geographischer Anstalt 58 (1912): 185-195; 253-256; 305-309. Wegener originated the theory of continental drift