Helmut Lieth
German botanist (1925-2015)
Friedrich Heinrich Helmut Lieth ((1925-12-16)16 December 1925 – (2015-04-16)16 April 2015) 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, Colombia, and in 1966 at the University of Hawaii. He was professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1967 to 1977. From then until 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 (Dr. Margot Lieth) and three sons (Prof. Dr. Johann Heinrich Lieth, Dr.
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