Karl Ledersteger
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Karl Ledersteger (11 November 1900, in Vienna – 24 September 1972, near Vienna) was an important geodesist and geophysicist.
After studies of
astronomical and physical geodesy
is his textbook of Erdmessung (Vol. V of the series Handbuch der Vermessungskunde, 871 p.) published 1969.
In 1958/59, Ledersteger was the first geodesist in Central Europe who published on the future fields of satellite geodesy. Other topics of his research were:
- Theory of National survey (Landesvermessung) - and practical computation of the ZEN (Zentraleuropäisches Netz, Berlin ~1940) and of parts of the ED50
- Theory of equilibrium figures of Earth and planets
- Isostasy of the Earth's crust and its effect on geoid determination; a main part was published posthumously by his successor Kurt Bretterbauer
- the system of reference ellipsoids.
Ledersteger was in intensive contact with the scientific community of whole Europe, US and Russia (e.g.
IUGG, DGK
and scientific academies of Austria, Germany and Hungary.
Ledersteger received many prizes, several doctorates honoris causa and calls to
universities. In Vienna he was asked to begin geodetic lectures immediately after World War II, but his professorship was postponed for 10 years because of his participation in Nazi surveys 1940–1945. He translated several works including a textbook of Magnizki
& Browar on theoretical geodesy.
External links, sources and literature
- Literature Online, University Innsbruck, c. 20 titles
- Karl Ledersteger 70 years, Harvard
- K. Ledersteger: "Astronomische und Physikalische Geodäsie (Erdmessung)", Handbuch der Vermessungskunde, Wilhelm Jordan, Otto Eggert and Max Kneissl ed., Volume V, chapter 4 (Geoid) and 11 (gravity), J.B.Metzler-Verlag, Stuttgart 1968
- K. Ledersteger, several lectures and reprints (Austrian & German Univ.libraries), c. 1940 bis 1975
- Péter Biró: 100 éve született Karl Ledersteger (K. Ledersteger 100th birthday). Geodézia és Kartográfia, Vol.52/12 (p. 32 ff), Budapest 2000.
- Karl Ledersteger in the German National Library catalogue
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