Emma Richter
Born
Emma Hüther[1]

(1888-03-04)March 4, 1888
Steinheim, Germany
DiedNovember 15, 1956(1956-11-15) (aged 68)
SpouseRudolf Richter
Children1 daughter
Academic work
DisciplinePaleontology

Emma Richter (4 March 1888 – 15 November 1956) was a German paleontologist. She is best known for her work concerning Trilobites.

Life and career

Richter was born in Steinheim on 4 May 1888.[2]

She spent around 45 years volunteering at the Senckenberg Museum alongside her husband Rudolf Richter.[2] She developed a new way to assess trilobites through paloecological-biofacial assessment while representing her husband at the museum during the First World War. Richter also worked on several projects with her husband including studying 500 halftone images of trilobites for their book Die Trilobiten des Oberdevons Beiträge zur Kenntnis devonischer Trilobiten and creating a comparative database with over 44,000 images.[3][4]

Richter was made an honorary member of the Paleontological Society of America in 1934 and received an honorary doctorate from the University of Tübingen in 1949.[5]

Richter died on 15 November 1956,[2] two months before her husband also died.[6]

Family

Richter married Rudolf Richter, a fellow paleontologist, in 1913[3] and they had one daughter.[5]

References

  1. ^ Haines, Catharine M. C. (2001). International Women in Science: A Biographical Dictionary to 1950. ABC-CLIO. p. XV. ISBN 9781576070901.
  2. ^ a b c Biographie, Deutsche. "Richter, Emma - Deutsche Biographie". www.deutsche-biographie.de (in German). Retrieved 25 August 2017.
  3. ^ a b Vierhaus, Rudolf (2005). Deutsche biographische Enzyklopädie: (DBE) (in German). Walter de Gruyter. p. 370. ISBN 9783598250385.
  4. ^ Richter, Rudolf; Richter, Emma. Die Trilobiten des Oberdevons Beiträge zur Kenntnis devonischer Trilobiten (in German). Vertrieb[sstelle] d. Preuss. Geolog. Landesanstalt. OCLC 72989025.
  5. ^ a b Ogilvie, Marilyn Bailey; Harvey, Joy Dorothy (2000). The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: L-Z. Taylor & Francis. p. 1098. ISBN 9780415920407.
  6. ^ "NACHRUF für RUDOLF RICHTER - EMMA RICHTER". Zeitschrift der Deutschen Geologischen Gesellschaft (in German). 1 January 1958. Retrieved 28 August 2017.
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