Eckart Viehweg

Eckart Viehweg (born 30 December 1948 in Zwickau, † 30 January 2010) was a German mathematician. He was a professor of Algebraic Geometry at the University of Duisburg- Essen, Essen.

1975 doctorate Viehweg at the University of Mannheim with Herbert Popp ( invariants of the degenerate fibers of local families of curves) and in 1980 he completed his habilitation in Mannheim, where he was assistant from 1975 to 1982. 1982 to 1984 he was a Heisenberg Fellow. Since 1984 he was a professor at the University of Duisburg -Essen. In 2010, he died of cancer.

In 1986 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berkeley ( Vanishing theorems and positivity in algebraic fiber spaces ). In 2003 he was awarded the Leibniz Prize together with his wife Hélène Esnault.

Since 2009 he was a member of the Leopoldina. In 2009 he was made an honorary Doctor of Vietnamese Academy of Science and Technology in Hanoi.

He was co-editor of the Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics (1996 to 2009), the Journal of Algebraic Geometry and the Annales de l' Ecole Normale Superieure.