Emma Richter | |
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| Born | Emma Hüther[1] (1888-03-04)4 March 1888 Steinheim, Germany |
| Died | 15 November 1956(1956-11-15) (aged 68) |
| Spouse | Rudolf Richter |
| Children | 1 daughter |
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| Discipline | Paleontology |
Emma Richter (née Hüther, 4 March 1888 – 15 November 1956) was a German paleontologist. She is best known for her work concerningTrilobites. She was an honorary member of thePaleontological Society of America and received an honorary doctorate from theUniversity of Tübingen.
Richter was born inSteinheim on 4 May 1888.[2] She was educated at the Elisabethenschule inFrankfurt am Main, and then trained as a teacher.[2]
Richter volunteered since childhood at theSenckenberg Museum which was where she met her husbandRudolf Richter.[2][3] The pair were based at theUniversity of Frankfurt, and went on to publish more than 70 joint works over the next forty years.[3] She held the position,de facto, of curator of the Geological Section at the Senckenberg Museum, but was an unpaid volunteer both there and at the university.[4] She developed a new way to assess trilobites through paloecological-biofacial assessment while representing her husband at the museum during theFirst World War. Richter also worked on several projects with her husband including producing 500halftone images of trilobites for their bookDie Trilobiten des Oberdevons Beiträge zur Kenntnis devonischer Trilobiten and creating a comparative database with over 44,000 images.[2][5] Richter also supervised doctoral students of her husband.[2]
Richter was made an honorary member of thePaleontological Society of America in 1934 and received an honorary doctorate from theUniversity of Tübingen in 1949.[4]
Richter died on 15 November 1956,[2] two months before her husband also died.[6]
Richter married Rudolf Richter, a fellow paleontologist, in 1913,[7] and they had one daughter.[4]
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