Helmut Moritz (President of IHL) 1998-2006

Helmut Moritz helmut.moritz@tugraz.at

Vita: Born 1 November 1933 in Graz (Austria); 1951 -- 1956 study of geodesy, Graz University of Technology (TUG); 1959 Dr.techn. (TUG); main research topics: physical geodesy, gravitational field, inverse problems in geodesy and geophysics; since 1955 various positions at TUG, Geodetic Service of Austria, Ohio State University, Technical University Hannover, and Wuhan University; 1964 -- 1971 Professor of Physical Geodesy at Technical University Berlin; 1971 Professor of Geodesy, TUG; 2002 Emeritus. Graz, March 2007.	Honorary Doctorates: Dr.-Ing.h.c., Technische Universität München, 1981; D.Sc.h.c., The Ohio State University, 1992; Dr.h.c., University of Geodesy and Cartography, Moscow, 1994. Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and of 10 foreign Academies.	International Activities: 1979 -- 1983: President of the International Association of Geodesy; 1991 -- 1995: President of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics; 1998 -- 2002: Director General of the Inter-University Center Dubrovnik; 1998 -- 2006: President of the International League of Humanists.
230 publications. 7 books, among them (with W. A. Heiskanen) Physical Geodesy, W.H. Freeman, San Francisco, 1967 (translated into Chinese, Serbian, Spanish  and Turkish); Advanced Physical Geodesy, Herbert Wichmann Verlag, Karlsruhe, 1980 (translated into Chinese and Russion), 2nd ed. 1989; (with B. Hofmann-Wellenhof) Geometry, Relativity, Geodesy, Herbert Wichmann Verlag, Karlsruhe, 1993; Science, Mind and the Universe: An Introduction to Natural Philosophy, Herbert Wichmann Verlag, Heidelberg, 1995 (translated into Croatian); (with B. Hofmann-Wellenhof) Physical Geodesy, Springer-Verlag, Wien-New York, 2nd ed., 2005 (translated into Japanese).

Deutscher Lebenslauf (Leibniz-Sozietät).

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