Leo Aario

Leo Eino Aario (until 1928 Engmann ) (born November 26, 1906 , † August 6, 1998 in Espoo ) was a Finnish geographer and geologist.

From 1945 to 1953 he was Professor of Geography at the University of Turku . He also served as dean of the natural sciences faculty and from 1951–53 as prorector of the university. From 1953 to 1970 he was Professor of Geography at Helsinki University . From 1963 Aario was a member of the Leopoldina Academy of Sciences . In 1967 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences .

Publications

Biological geography
Plant topographical and paleogeographical bog studies in N-Satakunta
About the forest and climate development on the Lappish Arctic coast in Petsamo with e. Contribution to the north u. Central European Climate history
About the southern runoff of the Vor-Päijännesees
A post-warming glacier advance in Oberfernau in the Stubai Alps
The cultural landscape and rural economy on both sides of the Rhine Valley near St. Goar
The Kolosjoki bottlenose dolphin find and the history of the development of Petsamos forests , in Fennia (1940), digitized
The original garden cities in britain and the garden city ideal in finland
Forest borders and subrecent [!] Pollen spectra in Petsamo, Lapland
Vegetation and post-glacial history of Nurmijärvi -Sees

Web links

Literature by and about Leo Aario in the catalog of the German National Library
http://www.helsinki.fi/maantiede/arkisto/web/webdoc12.html

Individual evidence

^ Member entry of Leo Aario at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on November 21, 2015.

↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 23.

personal data
SURNAME	Aario, Leo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Aario, Leo Eino (full name); Engmann, Leo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Finnish geographer and geologist
DATE OF BIRTH	November 26, 1906
DATE OF DEATH	August 6, 1998
Place of death	Espoo

[1] Member entry of Leo Aario at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on November 21, 2015.

[2] Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 23.