Helmut Lieth

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

Biography

Lieth received his doctorate in Biology from the University of Cologne in 1953 and became a private lecturer at the University of Stuttgart-Hohenheim in 1960. He was then a visiting professor in Venezuela and Colombia, professor of botany at the University of Hawaii and at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. From 1977 to 1992 he was a professor at the University of Osnabrück where he held the chair of 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 between 1960 and 1967. The descriptive form of climate display conceived here received the highest international recognition.

Selected works

with around 8,000 climate stations, 33 main maps, 22 secondary maps; published in 3 issues
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republished 2011, 2012
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