Friedrich Heinrich Helmut Lieth () was a German ecologist, botanist and phytogeographer.

Biography

Lieth received his doctorate in Biology from the

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in 1953 and became a private lecturer at the University of Stuttgart-Hohenheim in 1960. He was then visiting professor in Venezuela and Colombia, professor of botany at the

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and at the

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. From 1977 to 1992 he was a professor at the

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where he held the chair for ecology. Helmut Lieth married Magdalena Roth in 1952. The couple had a daughter and three sons.

Research

Lieth became widely known through the ''climate diagram world atlas'' published together with

Heinrich Walter Heinrich Karl Walter (21 October 1898 – 15 October 1989) was a German-Russian botanist and eco-physiologist. Life Walter, the son of a doctor, was born in Odessa. He studied plant biology at the University of Odessa from 1915 to 1917. In 1918 h ...

between 1960 and 1967. The descriptive form of climate display (the Walter-Lieth climate diagram ) conceived here received the highest international recognition.

Selected works

* with around 8,000 climate stations (around 9,000 diagrams), 33 main maps, 22 secondary maps; published in 3 issues * e-book published: 9 March 2013 ** * republished 2011, 2012 ** *

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lieth, Friedrich Heinrich Helmut German ecologists Academic staff of Osnabrück University University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa faculty Botanists active in Europe Botanists active in North America 1925 births 2015 deaths 20th-century German botanists