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| Name | (Friedrich, Heinrich) Helmut Lieth |
| Date of Birth | 16.12.25 |
| Place of Birth | Steeg/Amt Kürten, Rheinisch. Berg. Kreis |
| Date of Marriage | 04.02.52 |
| Wife's Name | Magdalena Lieth, nee Roth |
| Date of Birth | 04.11.21 |
| Place of Birth | Unterbörsch/Amt Kürten, Rheinisch. Berg.Kreis |
| Children | Daughter - Margot, born 24.11.53 in Steeg Amt Kürten Son - Johann Heinrich, born 02.01.55 in Cologne Son - Erich, born 20.02.58 in Stuttgart Son - Armin, Friedrich, born 30.11.59 in Stuttgart |
| Nationality | German |
| Church Affiliation | Roman Catholic |
2. Early Education
| 1932-1933 | Elementary School, Dürscheid/ Rheinisch Berg. Kreis |
| 1933-1936 | Catholic Elementary School, Gotha-Thüringen |
| 1936-1938 | Gymnasium Ernestinum, Gotha-Thüringen |
| 1938-1943 | Grillo High School, Gelsenkirchen/Westfalen |
| March 1943 | Drafted into Military Service |
3. Military Service
| April-June 1943 | Compulsory Service Reichs-Arbeitsdienst |
| October 1943 | Entry into German Navy |
| Jan.-May 1944 | Cadet School, Flensburg Mürvik. At the conclusion Signals Cadet and later Cadet Sergeant of Marine War Service |
| May 1944-April 1945 | Active Service in Norway, Russia and Germany |
| April-June 1945 | Prisoner of War, released 29.06.45 |
4. Higher Education
| July 1945-March 1946 | Agricultural Apprentice in Unterbörsch, Berg.Kreis |
| March-Nov. 1946 | Special Courses to obtain the current leaving certificate in Grillo High School in Gelsenkirchen (Abitur) |
| Nov.1946-June 1947 | Continuation as Agricultural Apprentice in Unterbörsch, Berg. Kreis |
| Sept. 3, 1947 | Agricultural Apprentice exam in the Agricultural School in Lindlar, Rheinisch Berg. Kreis |
| 1947-1949 | Study of Philosophy and Science at the Philosophical and Theological College in Bamberg |
| 1949-1951 | Undergraduate study and Thesis work in the Botany Department, University of Cologne |
| Nov. 28, 1953 | Rigorosum for Ph.D., University of Cologne |
| May 3, 1960 | Granting of the P.D.(Privatdozent), University of Stuttgart-Hohenheim |
5. Professional Career
| 1954-1955 | Scientific Assistant at the Botany Department, University of Cologne |
| 1955-1964 (with interruptions) |
Scientific Assistant at the Botany Department, Agricultural University in Hohenheim |
| May 3, 1960 | Obtained Academic Teaching Qualification and title of Lecturer (Privatdozent) at the Agricultural University Stuttgart-Hohenheim |
| May 1960-May 1961 | National Research fellow at the Botany Department, Université de Montreal, Canada |
| Aug.-Oct. 1961 | Guest Professor at the Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas |
| Aug.-Sept. 1963 Feb.-March 1964 |
Guest Professor at Universidad del Tolima in Ibagué, Colombia |
| Feb. 15, 1964 | Appointment to Senior Lecturer (Diätendozent) at the Agricultural University, Stuttgart-Hohenheim |
| Since early 1963 | Second appointment held as Lecturer in Ecology at the Technical University, Stuttgart |
| December 1966 | Appointment to Apl. Professor at the Agricultural University Stuttgart-Hohenheim |
| Jan.-July 1967 | Professor of Botany, University of Hawaii |
| July 1967-July 1970 | Associate Professor of Botany, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| July 1970-1983 | Professor of Botany, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| Sept. 1973 -Sept. 1974 | Guest Scientist at the Kernforschungsanlage Jülich,FRG |
| Winter semester 1973-1974 |
Guest Professor for Theoretical Ecology, University of Bochum, FRG |
| Nov. 1977 | Professor of Ecology at the University of Osnabrück, FRG |
| 1979-Dec. 1984 | President of the International Society of Biometeorology (2 terms) |
| 1985-1993 | Director, Working group Interdisciplinary Systems Research |
| 1986-1990 | Treasurer INTECOL |
| 16.03.88-11.04.88 | Guest Professor at Waseda University, Saitamo, Japan |
| 1990 - present | Member at large INTECOL board |
| 1989-1991 | Vice President Gesellschaft für Ökologie |
| 1991-1995 | Obmann International Phenological Gardens |
| April 1992 | Retired from the chair of ecology, University of Osnabrück |
| since 1993 | Member of the Institute of Environmental System Research, USF, University of Osnabrück |
| since 1997 | Vorsitzender SPARK e.V. Kürten-Dürscheid |
6. Scientific Projects with International Character
| October 1959 | Ecological work in Iceland |
| 1960 | Organisation of an International Symposium dry matter production of vegetation in Stuttgart-Hohenheim |
| 1960-1961 | Analysis of salt marsh vegetation on the Gaspe-Peninsula, Quebec, Canada |
| Aug.-Oct. 1961 | Work on mangroves in the Escuela de Biologia of the UCV in Caracas, Venezuela |
| Aug.-Sept. 1963 and Feb.-March 1964 |
Work concerning the caliche vegetation of Tolima, Colombia |
| February 1964 | Light Compensation Points of Epiphytes of Brazilian Cloud Forests, near Sao Paulo |
| December 1965 | Ecology of virgin forests and new plantations in Central Mato Grosso, Brazil |
| 1967 | Ecological investigations in the Hawaiian Islands |
| 1967-1969 | Biome Director, Tropical Forest Biome US, IBP |
| 1969-1970 | Task force member for elaborating the Global network for Environmental Monitoring (GNEM) on behalf of the US National Academy of Sciences |
| 1972 | Member, Board of Directors, Organisation for Tropical Studies |
| 1972 | Member, US-IBP Phenology Committee; held phenology mapping workshop in Chapel Hill, Jan. 1972; organised symposium on phenology and seasonality modelling at AIBS meeting in Minneapolis, Aug. 72; |
| June 1972 | held workshop on computer mapping at Institute f. Physikalische Chemie, Kernforschungsanlage Jülich |
| 1973-1974 | Environmental consultant to the government of Portugal for the Cabora Bassa Dam |
| 1975 | Chairman, Phenology Symposium, 12th International Botanical Congress in Leningrad, USSR |
| 1975-1976 | Chairman student exchange program, University of North Carolina-Nuclear Research Institute, Jülich |
| 1977 | Guest professor University of Osnabrück |
| 1978-1989 | Trial plantations of mangroves for desert greenification in Abu Dhabi |
| 1983 | Organisation of CEC Symposium Interaction between Climate and Biosphere |
| 1989 | Organisation of congress for the Gesellschaft für Ökologie in Osnabrück |
| 1989 1995 | Halophyte and Mangrove project at the coast of Abu Dhabi |
| 1990 | Organisation of Intl. conference on mangroves and high salinity-tolerant plants in Al Ain, UAE |
| 1991 | Organisation of ISTE/INTECOL symposium Restoration of Tropical Forest Ecosystems in Bonn |
| 1991-present | Oekobaikal Project for environmental protection of Lake Baikal |
| 1994 | Presentation of Irkutsk region on the TerraTec Fair in Leipzig |
| 1996 | Organisation of a forum on environmental technology for the Leipziger Messe GmbH in Irkutsk, Russia |
| 1996-present | director, EU Concerted Action project Sustainable Utilisation of Halophytes in the Mediterranean and Subtropical Dry Regions |
7. Publications Activities
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1979-continued (33 volumes) |
Editor-in-chief: Task for Vegetation Science, Book series in Ecology, Junk-Kluwer Verlag, Den Haag |
| 1980-1996 (12 volumes) |
Editor-in-chief: Handbook of Vegetation Science, Junk-Kluwer, Den Haag and Boston, 1996 transferred to Prof. Pott, Univ. of Hannover |
| 1986-continued (11 volumes) |
Editor-in-chief Progress in Biometeorology |
| 1986-1988 | Editor: Public. of Gesellschaft zu Emden von 1814 |
| 1987-1992 | Editor-in-chief: International Journal of Biometeorology |
| 1989-1993 | Editor-in-chief: Vegetatio |
8. Member, editorial boards
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1970-1986 1974-1989 1975-1986 1975-1995 |
Vegetatio now: Plant Ecology |