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Born 1945 at Neumarkt/Schlesien
Prof. Dr. Karl Stahr
Professional degrees:
Education: Highschool at Augsburg and Bad Cannstatt
1969 Diploma in Geology at Technical University Stuttgart
1972 Dr. rer. nat. (Ph. D. science) at Technical University Stuttgart
(E. Schlichting)
1979 Habilitation in Soil Science, University of Freiburg i.Br.
Professional record
1969 - 1972 Soil Scientist (research assistant)
Institut. of Soil Science, University of Hohenheim
1972 - 1980 Scientific Assistant (lecturer)
Institut of Soil Science, University of Freiburg
1980 - 1988 Professor Soil Geography
Institut of Ecology, Technical University of Berlin
since 1988
Professor of Soil Science and Petrography
Institut of Soil Science and Land Evaluation,
University of Hohenheim
Teaching:
Lectures in Soil Science, Soil Ecology, Tropical Soils, Clay Mineralogy, Soil Mapping and
Land Evaluation, Courses in Soil Analysis, Soil Description and Soil Mapping; Seminars in
Soil Science, Soil Ecology, Land Evaluation.
Supervisor of more than 140 Master students and 50 Ph.D. students
Guest lecturer:
Universities of Tübingen, Stuttgart, Freiburg i. Br., Free University of Berlin, Technical
University of Berlin.
Publication:
About 335 articles in national and international periodicals, several monographies and
textbook chapters.
Member of Editorial Bord of periodicals:
Catena, Plant Nutrition and Soil Science, Geoderma, Trends in Soil Science and Hohenheimer
Bodenkundliche Hefte.
Research:
Main fields: Soil genesis, Soil mineralogy, Land evaluation, N-cycle, recycling of organic
waste.
Research projects in forest and agricultural soils of Germany as well as Brazil, Ecuador,
Argentina, Spain, Portugal, Egypt, Israel, Turkey, PR China, Somalia, Niger, Benin.