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

Biography

Lieth received his doctorate 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 ...

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 Osnabrück University faculty University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa faculty Botanists active in Europe Botanists active in North America 1925 births 2015 deaths 20th-century German botanists