Elise Richter

woman and Holocaust victim

Aged unknown

Elise Richter (2 March 1865 – 23 June 1943) was an Austrian philologist, specialising in Romance studies, and university professor. She was the first woman to achieve the habilitation at the University of Vienna, the first female associate professor and the only woman at any Austrian university before World War I to hold an academic appointment. Persecuted by Nazi officials during World War II, she was deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp in German-occupied Czechoslovakia in October 1942, and died there in June 1943.

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Elise Richter [full inscription unknown]

English translation: Elise Richter

Koppenstraße 41 / 41A, Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany where they lived